Two Palestinian children shot dead by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank were shot in the back, the Defence for Children International — Palestine (DCIP) has said, according to Al Jazeera.

DCIP identified the two children as Ayman Al-Hemouni, aged 12, from Hebron and Rimas Ammouri, a 13-year-old girl from Jenin, while Al Jazeera reported that the children were both 13 years old.

Ayman was near the home of a family member in the Hebron area when he was “shot in the back by an Israeli soldier” yesterday evening. Rimas was shot while standing in the courtyard of her family home in the Jenin area yesterday afternoon, the organisation said.

An Israeli soldier in an armoured car, stationed approximately 50 metres from Rimas, fired at least five bullets into the courtyard where she was standing, hitting her in the back, DCIP said.

“Both Ayman and Rimas were targeted suddenly and without warning in the back with lethal force by Israeli soldiers safely positioned inside armoured vehicles,” DCIP’s Ayed Abu Eqtaish said.