In 2006, Mutussam Abu Karsh was playing soccer in the northern Gaza Strip when an Israeli tank shell exploded, ripping his leg and part of his hand from his body. He was eight years old. A few years earlier, three-year-old Yasmeen Najjar was playing outside her family’s house near Nablus in the West Bank when she was struck by an Israeli army vehicle. Her right leg was later amputated above the knee.