UNICEF Says 70 Children Killed in West Bank and East Jerusalem Since 2025
UNICEF said 93% of the children were killed by Israeli forces, while another 850 were injured, mostly by live ammunition.
- On Tuesday, leaked remarks revealed Israeli army chief Maj Gen Avi Bluth told a closed forum his troops were "killing like we haven't killed since 1967," while describing loosened rules of engagement for West Bank operations.
- Since October 7, 2023, Israeli settlers have conducted an escalating campaign of violent intimidation against Palestinians, with the IDF increasingly drawing officers from settlements and abetting these actions.
- Bluth admitted to loosening legal constraints, permitting troops to shoot suspects "at the knee or below" to create "barrier awareness" and labeling illegal Palestinian workers as "potential terrorists," despite differential treatment for Jewish settler militants.
- UNICEF spokesperson James Elder reported at least 70 Palestinian children have been killed in the West Bank since 2025, with 93% killed by Israeli forces, while stressing children now walk through fear.
- Bluth warned these discriminatory policies could provoke a West Bank uprising, as UNICEF data shows more than 2,500 Palestinians, including 1,100 children, were displaced in the first four months of 2026, exceeding all of 2025.
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The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) and Israeli settlers have killed, on average, one Palestinian child a week in the West Bank reoccupied since the beginning of 2025, denounced yesterday the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef). Seventy children were killed and more than 800 injured in the West Bank reoccupied and East Jerusalem during this period, Unicef revealed; 93 percent died at the hands of the IDF; the others were victims of settlers who…
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The United Nations condemned Tuesday the toll from swelling Israeli military operations and settler attacks in the occupied West Bank on children, with 70 Palestinian children killed since early 2025. "Children are paying an intolerable price for escalating military operations and settler attacks across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem," UN children's agency spokesman James Elder told reporters. Since January 2025, when Israel be…
In the occupied West Bank, 70 Palestinian children have been killed and more than 800 injured since the start of Israeli military operations in January last year, the UN Children's Fund (Unicef) said.
Conditions for children in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, are rapidly deteriorating. According to UNICEF, the escalation of military operations and increased settler attacks are not only increasing violence, but also systematically eroding the conditions essential to children’s childhood, safety and future.
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