A children’s rights group has called on the US to stop sending weapons that the Israeli military uses to kill Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank.

Defense for Children International Palestine said the killing in Jenin of two 15-year-old boys by Israeli snipers on Tuesday morning — one of whom was “returning home from school on his electric bicycle” — underscored the regular use of lethal force against Palestinian children by Israel’s military “in circumstances that may amount to extrajudicial or wilful killings”.

“The United States must stop sending weapons to the Israeli military that are used to kill Palestinian children without restraint, whether in Gaza or Jenin,” the organisation said in a statement.