Mourners take the last look at the body of Palestinian girl Bana Bakr, 13, at the family house during her funeral in the West Bank village of Qaryut, south of Nablus, September 7, 2024
MORE than 150 teens and younger children have been killed by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank since Hamas’s attack on southern Israel last October, it was reported today.
Amnesty International said that most of the dead were killed during the nearly daily raids carried out by the Israelis using disproportionate and unlawful force.
Amjad Hamadneh lost his teenage son Mahmoud when the boy’s school dismissed students at the start of a May raid.
As the Alliance of Sahel States and southern African nations advance pan-African goals, the African Union must listen and learn rather than parroting the Western line on these positive developments, writes ROGER McKENZIE
Money makers already exploit cleaning and catering contracts while the military-industrial complex diverts billions from health to warfare — but Bevan’s vision will endure as long as people fight for it, writes ROGER MCKENZIE
