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The Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) on Saturday shot a two-year-old girl in the head in her home in the West Bank, reported CBC, citing the Palestinian health ministry. A funeral for the girl was held on Sunday.
The Palestinian health ministry said that the girl, Laila Muhammad Al-Khatib was shot dead during an Israeli military raid on the village of Ash-Shuhada, just south of Jenin in the occupied West Bank.
Amid a ceasefire in Gaza, the IDF has continued a range of strikes in the occupied West Bank.
A day after the ceasefire took effect, the IDF started a major operation involving hundreds of Israeli troops along with armoured vehicles, drones and helicopters in Jenin which houses one of the largest Palestinian refugee camps and is home to the resistance movement.
At least 16 Palestinians have been killed in Jenin and surrounding areas since the start of the operation a week ago, including four claimed as fighters by Hamas and the Iranian-backed Islamic Jihad.
The Israel and Palestine director of the Human Rights Watch (HRW) told CBC that they had identified several instances of unlawful killings of children and other civilians by the IDF in the West Bank.