One child was sitting on her mother’s lap. Another had just stepped outside his home. Another was picking almonds.

The United Nations reports that at least 18 children under the age of 15 have been killed by Israeli gunfire in the occupied West Bank this year, marking the third consecutive year child fatalities in the territory have reached the double digits.

Some died during Israeli military raids; others were shot while walking in their neighborhoods, playing outside or staying inside their homes. More than 300 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since January.

Among the children killed were Layla, 2, shot in Jenin while perched on her mother's lap; Saddam, 10, killed while holding his father’s phone in Tulkarem; Amer, 14, a U.S. citizen from New Jersey whose father sai

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