Israeli forces kill 16-year-old Palestinian boy near Bethlehem
16-year-old Ammar Yasser Mohammad Ta’amrah was shot and killed by Israeli forces. Photo courtesy of the Ta’amrah family.
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16-year-old Ammar Yasser Mohammad Ta’amrah was shot and killed by Israeli forces. Photo courtesy of the Ta’amrah family.
16-year-old Rayan Mohammad AbdelQader Abu Mualla was shot and killed by Israeli forces. Photo courtesy of the Abu Mualla family.
17-year-old Ahmad Khalil Ahmad Rajabi was shot and killed by Israeli forces. Photo: Courtesy of the Rajabi family.
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.
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 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)
Ramallah, September 2, 2025—A record number of Palestinian children are held in administrative detention without charge or trial.
Omar Nizar Mahmoud Asfour, 16. Photo courtesy of the Asfour family.
Ramallah, July 26, 2025—Israeli forces killed three Palestinian boys in the occupied West Bank last week.
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.