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Al Jazeera Staff

Israel forces shoot Palestinian boy in eye at aid site amid Gaza starvation

Palestinian Abdul Rahman Abu Jazar, 15, says he sought help at one of the controversial GHF aid sites 'because my siblings and I had no food' [Screengrab/Al Jazeera]

A Palestinian teenager, shot in the eye by Israeli forces while desperately seeking food for his family near a United States and Israeli-backed GHF site in Gaza, is unlikely to regain sight in his left eye, doctors treating him have said, as the population of the besieged and bombarded enclave suffers from forced starvation.

Fifteen-year-old Abdul Rahman Abu Jazar told Al Jazeera that Israeli soldiers kept shooting at him even after he was struck by a bullet, making him think “this was the end” and “death was near”.

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