Israeli military and settlers have killed 70 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank since the start of 2025, at least one each week on average, the U.N. said Tuesday, as it condemned the "escalating" toll.
"Children are paying an intolerable price for escalating military operations and settler attacks across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem," U.N. children's agency spokesman James Elder told reporters.
Since the start of 2025, when Israel began a large-scale military operation in the West Bank, "at least one Palestinian child has been killed on average every single week," adding that another 850 children had been injured during that period.
"Most of those killed or wounded were (targeted) by live ammunition," he said.
Israeli forces were responsible for a full 93% of the deaths, Elder said, highlighting that the scaled-up military operations had come amid "historic levels of settler attacks."
