A/HRC/28/78 ammunition, leaving him seriously wounded, during protests triggered by the death of Ziad Abu Ein.30 45. According to a Palestinian non-governmental organization, in an incident on 31 August 2014, a 16-year-old Palestinian youth was allegedly shot in the head with a rubbercoated bullet and killed by Israeli security forces in the Wadi al-Joz neighbourhood of East Jerusalem. The youth was reportedly going to the mosque when he was caught up in clashes between Palestinian youths and Israeli security forces. 46. Television audiences across the world witnessed closed-circuit television footage capturing the moments, on 15 May 2014 in the town if Beituniya in the West Bank, when two Palestinian teenagers, Nadim Nuwara and Muhammad Salama, were shot and killed. Neither of the teenagers posed any immediate threat to Israeli security forces, which were positioned more than 60 metres away. A member of the Israeli paramilitary border police was reportedly arrested on 12 November 2014, and an indictment for manslaughter of Nadim was filed at the Jerusalem district court on 23 November. 31 Whether the suspect will be charged and a sentence commensurate to the crime is handed down remains to be seen. No arrest has been made in connection with the killing of Muhammad Salama. 47. On 12 November 2014, the Government of Israel responded to a joint letter of allegation addressed in August by the Special Rapporteur and several thematic mandate holders regarding the case of the reported killing of civilians during peaceful demonstrations in the West Bank in July, including that of Hashem Khader Abu Maria, who worked as coordinator for Defence for Children International, and of two others. In its response, the Government pointed out that the civilians had been “killed during violent clashes between Palestinians and Israeli security forces … in the course of which Israel Defense Forces soldiers were subject to severe acts of violence, including the throwing of stones, Molotov cocktails, and improvised explosives”. The Government added that a criminal investigation had been immediately opened into the incidents, but that, “in light of the highest concerns given to the integrity of the investigation, and in accordance with the law, the Criminal Investigations Department cannot disclose information regarding ongoing investigations’.32 C. Israeli security forces search operations in Palestinian refugee camps 48. Over the past three years, the number of Israeli search operations in Palestinian refugee camps and Palestinians refugees detained by Israeli security forces has increased considerably, from 293 operations in 2012 to 568 operations during the period from January to September 2014. This has resulted in more Palestinian refugees injured and killed, including children, in the context of these operations. 30 OHCHR, “Zeid says Israel must take action” (see footnote 27). A report concluded that the border policeman identified was the person who killed Nuwwara. See DCI-Palestine and Forensic Architecture, “The killing of Nadeem Nawara and Mohammad Mahmoud Odeh Abu Daher in a Nakba Day protest outside of Beitunia on May 15th, 2014”. 32 See A/HRC/28/85. 31 14