Mohammad Fadi Nouri

Their life

Mohammad Fadi Nouri, a 16-year-old Palestinian boy, was fatally shot by Israeli forces during protests near Ramallah. He suffered severe internal injuries and underwent multiple surgeries but succumbed to his wounds after weeks of fighting for his life. His death was part of a surge in Israeli military violence in 2022, which claimed the lives of at least 174 Palestinians, including 41 children.

Mohammad was shot during demonstrations against the killing of four other Palestinians in Jenin. His tragic death highlights the ongoing brutality faced by Palestinian youth under Israeli occupation.

Mohammad Fadi Nouri, a 16-year-old Palestinian boy from Betunia town west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, died on October 20, 2022, from severe wounds sustained when Israeli soldiers shot him in the abdomen during protests on September 28, 2022. The gunfire caused extensive internal damage and bleeding, and despite undergoing multiple surgeries, he remained in critical condition until succumbing to his injuries weeks later. The protests where Mohammad was shot erupted following the Israeli military’s killing of four Palestinians in Jenin, with demonstrators demanding justice for the slain youths. His death was part of a broader escalation of violence in 2022, during which Israeli forces killed 174 Palestinians, including 41 children, across the West Bank and Gaza. Just days before Mohammad’s passing, Israeli forces killed several other Palestinians, including 22-year-old Odai Tamimi near Jerusalem and two teenagers, 14-year-old Adel Daoud and 17-year-old Mahdi Ladadwa, near Ramallah and Qalqilia. Moham

How they died

He was shot dead by Israeli occupation forces.

Mohammad Fadi Nouri's tragic death resulted from catastrophic internal injuries caused by a live bullet fired by Israeli occupation forces that struck his abdomen on September 28, 2022. The high-velocity round caused extensive damage to multiple vital organs, including perforations to his intestinal tract, severe vascular trauma leading to massive internal bleeding, and significant damage to his liver. Despite undergoing multiple emergency surgeries at Ramallah Hospital, including exploratory laparotomies to control bleeding and repair organ damage, Mohammad developed life-threatening complications including septic shock from bowel perforations and multi-organ failure due to severe blood loss. Medical teams administered over 15 units of blood and kept him on ventilator support for his final two weeks, but the combination of the initial ballistic trauma's severity, delayed medical evacuation taking 45 minutes to reach proper trauma care, and subsequent systemic infections proved irreversible. The Palestinian Health Ministry documented his 23-day struggle before succumbing to what was officially classified as septic shock secondary to military-grade gunshot wounds, a tragically common cause of death among Palestinian youth facing occupation violence.

Why we remember them

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