‘Total oppression’: West Bank children being killed at unprecedented rate

Hanin Hoshiyeh, 37, is one of hundreds of grieving parents left behind. In the corner of her small living room is a makeshift shrine to her son, Mohammad Morad Ahmad Hoshiyeh, who went out for football practice in late June and never came home. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum/The Guardian

Mohammad was 12, a football-mad teenager who spent his days dreaming of a career on the pitch and his last minutes practising ball skills. Ghassan was 14, a quiet, generous teenager who ran errands for elderly relatives, with an adoring six-year-old brother who stuck to him like a shadow.

Both boys were shot dead this summer by Israeli soldiers, victims of an unprecedented surge in attacks on children in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.