In Gaza a 17-year-old, Haitham Said Nattat was killed instantly when shrapnel severed his head from his body, shrapnel which was the result of the indiscriminate Israeli tank fired at the houses of the Rafah refugee camp. 15 people were injured, seven of those children.

Also in Rafah, Abdullah Al-Aghalbly, 14 years old, was killed while walking outside - shot with live ammunition in his chest.

Israeli soldiers also killed Palestinians on Thursday evening, when the drama in the Ramallah headquarters was unfolding. Ahmed Lubad, a 36-year-old mentally disabled man from the At-Tufah neighbourhood in Gaza city was shot walking in the area. He died instantly when bullets hit his chest and face.

Samira Ad-Dehdar, 25, was cowering in her bedroom of her house also in At-Tuffah neighbourhood when a bullet, one of the hundreds of Israeli bullets fired randomly in the civilian area, hit her in the neck.

Furthermore, the paralysing curfew that was in place before the events of Thursday remains in place. In Nablus the curfew has been imposed for 91 days, lifted for a mere 89 hours, in Jenin the 91 days 24 hour curfew has been lifted for 434 hours; since the school term began three weeks ago children in Jenin and Nablus have been unable to attend school.

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