'Why would anyone shoot an infant?': Killing of Palestinian children, teens by Israel surges in West Bank
Alia al-Hallaq’s son Mohammed was nine when he was killed by an Israeli army bullet last October, but the Palestinian homemaker still speaks of herself as a mother of five, not four. “I still haven’t accepted the idea of the loss. I often sit in the courtyard of the house and look at Mohammed’s grave below, and I cry while making sure that my children don’t see me,” she told AFP . She said…
The article reports an alarming surge in the killing of Palestinian children and teenagers by Israeli forces in the West Bank since the outbreak of the conflict in Gaza in October 2023. According to B'Tselem, an Israeli rights group, 235 children and teenagers have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank from October 2023 to June 2026, with an average of seven killed per month since then.
This is significantly higher than the average of one child or teenager killed per month between 2005 and 2021. The Israeli military has defended its actions, claiming soldiers responded to stone-throwing incidents, but witnesses have reported indiscriminate firing and deaths of young children. The article highlights the emotional toll on families, with mothers like Alia al-Hallaq, who lost her nine-year-old son Mohammed, struggling to accept the loss and seeking justice for their children.
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