11-year-old boy shot by Israeli forces in Gaza

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · Aug 12, 2026 · 62 words

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11-year-old boy shot by Israeli forces in Gaza NewsFeed 11-year-old boy shot by Israeli forces in Gaza The father of an 11-year-old boy says Israeli forces shot his son in the head and leg in Khan Younis.

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Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israeli attacks since last October’s ceasefire have killed at least 1,259 Palestinians and injured 4,146.

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The clearest point to anchor on is this: The father of an 11-year-old boy says Israeli forces shot his son in the head and leg in Khan Younis.

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Claim 1: “The father of an 11-year-old boy says Israeli forces shot his son in the head and leg in Khan Younis.”

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The provided evidence consists of general Wikipedia entries about the Gaza war and the geography of Khan Yunis. There is no specific mention of an 11-year-old boy being shot in the head and leg in the provided evidence.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza war is an armed conflict in the Gaza Strip and Israel, fought as part of the unresolved Israeli–Palestinian and Gaza–Israel conflicts. The war began on 7 October 2023, when the Palestinian mi…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_war

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Khan Yunis (Arabic: خان يونس, lit. 'khan (caravanserai) [of] Yunis'), also spelled Khan Younis or Khan Yunus, is a city in the southern Gaza Strip, Palestine, and serves as the capital of the Khan Yun…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Yunis

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Khan Yunis refugee camp, also called Khan Yunis Camp (Arabic: مخيم خان يونس), is a Palestinian refugee camp in the Khan Yunis Governorate just west of the city of Khan Yunis and two kilometers eas…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khan_Yunis_refugee_camp

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Claim 2: “Gaza’s Government Media Office says Israeli attacks since last October’s ceasefire have killed at least 1,259 Palestinians and injured 4,146.”

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The web search results provided are dictionary definitions of the word 'according' and the Wikipedia entries provide general context about the Gaza Strip and the war, but none of the sources contain the specific casualty figures (1,259 killed and 4,146 injured) attributed to the Gaza Government Media Office.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza Strip is governed by Hamas which assumed control of the territory on 11 June 2007 after seizing it from the rival Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority (PA). The Hamas administration was fir…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_Strip_under_Hamas

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Gaza genocide is the ongoing, intentional, and systematic destruction of the Palestinian people in the Gaza Strip carried out by Israel during the Gaza war. It encompasses mass killings, the targe…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaza_genocide

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