How children in West Bank are being killed by Israel ‘without accountability’

Aliyah al-Halaq beside an image of her late son Mohammad, nine, killed by the IDF last October. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum/The Guardian

On the day he died, Mohammad al-Halaq had been jubilant about a new school bag he had been given in class, printed with the logo of the UN child protection and advocacy agency, Unicef.

“He was extremely happy. It was something out of the ordinary for him to be given a bag,” recalled his mother, Aliyah. “He came knocking on the door to tell me had this new bag to put pencils and pens in.”