Killing of Palestinian children and teens by Israel surges in West Bank
B'Tselem, an Israeli rights group, reported 235 children and teenagers killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank since Oct. 7, 2023, through June 2026.
Palestinian Alia al-Hallaq, mother of 9-year-old Mohammed, who was killed by an Israeli army bullet, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank on July 16. The killing of Palestinian children and teenagers by Israel has become increasingly common since the start of the war in Gaza. | AFP-JIJI
Aug 30, 2026
Ramallah, Palestinian Territories – 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 said.
She said Mohammed was killed after running away from soldiers patrolling their village of Al-Rihiya, in the south of the occupied West Bank.
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