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.
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 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.
17-year-old Palestinian child prisoner starved to death by Israeli prison guards
Walid Khalid Abdullah Ahmad, 17, died in Megiddo prison on March 22 from starvation, dehydration, and infections caused by prolonged malnutrition and medical neglect. (Photo: Courtesy of the Ahmad family)
17-year-old Palestinian child dies in Israeli prison in unclear circumstances
17-year-old Walid Khaled Abdullah Ahmad died in Megiddo prison. (Photo: Courtesy of the Ahmad family)
Israeli forces issue administrative detention order against youngest Palestinian child on record
Muin Ghassan Fahed Salahat. Photo courtesy of the Salahat family.
10-year-old Palestinian boy in critical condition after Israeli soldier shoots him in Tulkarem
Saddam Hussein Iyad Mohammad Rajab, 10, was shot by an Israeli soldier during an incursion into Tulkarem on January 28 and is now in critical condition at a hospital in Nablus. (Photo: Courtesy of the Rajab family)