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The teens attended a court hearing and covered their faces and mouths to hide from cameras as they appeared to be laughing. Ayala’s public defender, David Westbrook, also appeared to be laughing alongside the teen in the courtroom.

A new report by respected Israeli human rights NGO B’Tselem has demolished claims made by Israeli authorities that significant ‘reforms’ have been made to the system of military detention and prosecution experienced by Palestinian children.

The father of two-year-old, Rahaf Hassan, weeps as he holds her body after she and her 30-year-old mother pregnant mother, Noor Hassan, were killed in Israeli air strike in the Gaza Strip. (AP/Khalil Hamra)