In the occupied West Bank, a 17-year-old Palestinian American named Tawfiq Ajjaq was fatally shot in the head on Friday. According to the group Defense for Children International, Ajjaq was killed when an Israeli settler and soldiers opened fire on him in Ramallah. Tawfiq Ajjaq grew up in Louisiana, near New Orleans. He moved to the West Bank last year with his family. Ajjaq is at least the 93rd Palestinian child killed in the occupied West Bank since October 7. On Saturday, Tawfiq Ajjaq’s father spoke to reporters at his son’s funeral.

Hafeth Ajjaq: “But come here on the ground and see what’s going on. Come here and test and see for your own eyes what kind of life we are living here, what is the pressure they put us under, what is the women and kids, and how many fathers and mothers have to say goodbye to their children, how many more. But it will come, inshallah, one day.”