Dhaka, Apr 8 (UNB) – The Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has strongly condemned the killing of a 14-year-old Palestinian-American boy by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.
The Geneva-based rights organisation dismissed Israel’s claim that the teenager, Omar Mohammad Rabea, was a “terrorist” because he had allegedly thrown stones. Two other children were also injured in the incident.
“They were unarmed children. This wasn’t self-defense. It was the deliberate execution of a child on occupied Palestinian land,” Euro-Med stated in a post on X.
“By calling stone-throwing children ‘terrorists’, Israel manufactures fake justifications for murder – and places itself above international law. This is part of a system of state violence and persecution designed to criminalize every Palestinian act of resistance – even from a child,” the organisation said.
“Executing children is not self-defense. Throwing a stone is not terrorism. This is apartheid backed by bullets – colonial violence unleashed with total impunity.”
Source: Al Jazeera