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At least 54 Palestinian children killed in West Bank in 2025: Report
Israeli forces and settlers have killed at least 54 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank in 2025, according to a report published by the Defense for Children International’s Palestine (DCIP) organisation.
It said Israeli forces used live ammunition during raids across the West Bank, resulting in the deliberate killing of children. The organisation documented multiple cases of children shot during military operations.
Among them was eight-year-old Jannat Mutawar, who was shot in the head while inside her home in Hebron during an Israeli raid. The DCIP said she was trying to pull her younger brother away from a window and now faces permanent vision loss.
Thirteen-year-old Amr Ali Ahmad Qabha was shot seven times after unknowingly approaching an Israeli military position, the DCIP said. Soldiers allegedly blocked paramedics and his father from reaching him for 40 minutes while he was still alive, allowing access only after his death.
The organisation added that Israeli authorities have withheld the bodies of at least 62 Palestinian children from their families since June 2016.
Hamas official condemns Israeli plans to make Jerusalem army hub
Mahmoud Mardawi has condemned an agreement signed between the Israeli Defence Ministry and the Jerusalem Municipality to establish a new military headquarters in the city.
The plan calls for the creation of a 30-storey military complex at the entrance to the city that is to house Defence Ministry offices. It also calls for the relocation of military personnel to Jerusalem, the creation of a military museum and the establishment of related housing.
The move is symbolically significant because occupied East Jerusalem has long been envisioned as the capital of a future Palestinian state.
Mardawi said the plan “represents a dangerous escalation in the policy of militarisation of the occupied city” and is an effort to change the city’s “demographic features”. He added that it “tightens the noose” on the city’s Palestinian population.
He called on the UN and regional powers to increase pressure on Israel to change course.
Israeli army orders demolitions in Nur Shams
The army says in a statement on X that it has ordered the demolition of “several structures” in the refugee camp in the occupied West Bank.
This confirms what local officials said yesterday, when Abdallah Kamil, the governor of the Tulkarem governorate where Nur Shams is located, told the AFP news agency that he was informed of the planned demolition by the Israeli Defence Ministry body COGAT.
Faisal Salama, the head of the popular committee for the Tulkarem camp, which is near Nur Shams, said the demolition order would affect 100 family homes.
Israel launched Operation Iron Wall in the occupied West Bank in January. It says the campaign is aimed at combating armed groups in refugee camps in the northern West Bank.
