RAMALLAH: B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, released a new report detailing the 54 cases in which Israeli forces killed Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank in 2025.
The report said: “From Oct. 7, 2023 to June 28, 2026, Israel killed 1,086 Palestinians in the West Bank, 241 of them children and teenagers. Nearly one in every four Palestinians killed by Israel in the West Bank during this period was a minor. This is the highest rate of Palestinian children and teenagers killed in the West Bank since Israel occupied the territory in 1967.”
B’Tselem Executive Director Yuli Novak said: “The widespread, unprecedented killing of Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank is the result of a broader Israeli policy that enables the killing of Palestinians with virtually no accountability.
“When the military commander of the area boasts that Israel is killing Palestinians ‘like we haven’t killed since 1967,’ he is confirming exactly that: The system does not merely back those who pull the trigger — it effectively grants them a license to kill.”
The report showed that the killing of Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank is not the result of isolated mistakes or violations of military orders.
