Israeli forces kill 17-year-old Palestinian boy and confiscate his body
17-year-old Ahmad Khalil Ahmad Rajabi was shot and killed by Israeli forces. Photo: Courtesy of the Rajabi family.
Source: Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP)
Defense for Children International Palestine (DCIP) is committed to securing a just and viable future for Palestinian children in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. (https://www.dci-palestine.org/)
Palestinian children disappear amid Israeli military detentions in Gaza
From left to right: Siraj Ismail Fayeq Abdel Aal, 16, Mahmoud Jihad Hasan Abu Warda, 14, Saadi Mohammad Saadi Hasanain, 16, Jamal Nihad Jamil Ayyad, 13, Haitham Mohammad Jamil Al-Masri, 17, and Saifan-Allah Fahd Awni Ayash, 16. Photos each courtesy of the child’s family.
Israeli forces shoot dead 17-year-old Palestinian boy near Nablus
17-year-old Jameel Atef Jameel Hanani was killed by Israeli forces in Beit Furik in the northern occupied West Bank. (Photo: Courtesy of the Hanani family)
Israeli forces fatally shoot 15-year-old Palestinian boy in Silwad
Israeli forces shot and killed 15-year-old Yamen Hamed Yousef Hamed on October 30 in Silwad in the central occupied West Bank. (Photo: Courtesy of the Hamed family)
41 percent of Palestinian child detainees have no charges
Ramallah, September 2, 2025—A record number of Palestinian children are held in administrative detention without charge or trial.
Palestinian child seeking aid tortured in Israeli military detention camp
Omar Nizar Mahmoud Asfour, 16. Photo courtesy of the Asfour family.
Israeli forces kill three Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank
Ramallah, July 26, 2025—Israeli forces killed three Palestinian boys in the occupied West Bank last week.
13-year-old Palestinian boy was killed after being shot in the back and left to bleed
Ramallah, July 19, 2025—Israeli forces killed a 13-year-old Palestinian boy in Ya’bad village yesterday. Amr Ali Ahmad Qabha, 13, was shot and killed around 6:30 p.m. on July 18 in the Palestinian village of Ya’bad, south of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank, according to documentation collected by Defense for Children International – Palestine. Two military vehicles came from the Mevo Dotan settlement and military base, entered the village and took up positions in its northern area, where several soldiers exited their vehicles near the Patient’s Friends Society.
“Starving a Generation” report indicts Israel for weaponizing starvation as a tool of genocide
“Starving a Generation: Israel’s Famine Campaign Targeting Palestinian Children in Gaza” documents 33 cases of child starvation collected by DCIP’s field researchers in the Gaza Strip between October 7, 2023, and May 21, 2025.
Israeli forces kill Palestinian child with expanding bullet in Jalazone refugee camp raid
Malek Ali Ibrahim al-Hattab, 16. Photo courtesy of the al-Hattab family.