Mira Tanboura, 6, shot in the heart by an Israeli sniper

On November 18, 2023, Saeed Tanboura and his six-year-old daughter, Mira, fleeing northern Gaza, were permitted to pass through an Israeli checkpoint on a road the Israeli army had designated as an evacuation route. After they had walked a little over a kilometer farther down the road, Mira was shot in the heart and died, with the bullet coming from an area where Israeli soldiers were stationed.

No fighting was going on at the time.

Mira’s was one of more than 160 cases of children shot in the war that were investigated and confirmed by the BBC, which broadcast their findings in a 15-minute documentary on August 2, 2025.

In many cases, the BBC concluded that Israeli soldiers shot the children despite no indication of a battle or a threat to the soldiers.

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