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On October 19, Sarah Mahamid watched helplessly from a window as Israeli security forces shot her younger brother.

Fifteen-year-old Taha was playing with a friend in front of their house in the occupied West Bank city of Tulkarem.

The 19-year-old screamed as her brother fell to the ground.

Her father Ibrahim ran out the front door to get his son, but was also shot by a sniper.

“I remember my father shouting that Taha might still be alive… but I knew Taha had been martyred. I knew he was dead,” Sarah told Al Jazeera.

Taha died instantly. Ibrahim fought for his life in intensive care for five months until he too died.

The footage seen by Al Jazeera shows that Taha and Ibrahim were both unarmed and posed no threat.

Nearly 1,500 Palestinians have been unlawfully killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank over the past 16 years – 98 percent of them civilians, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA). Each of them, like Taha and Ibrahim, has a story and loved ones to mourn them.

The frequency of these killings has skyrocketed in recent years. In 2023 alone, Israel killed 509 Palestinians, more than double the number recorded by OCHA in any previous year.

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