On Sunday, Israeli soldiers abducted five Palestinians, including a father and his son, near Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
Media sources said several Israeli military vehicles invaded Artas and Husam villages, south and west of Bethlehem, of Bethlehem, before the soldiers stormed and ransacked several homes.
The sources added that the soldiers abducted former political prisoner, Ehab Khaled Ismael, 26, from his home in Artas.
The soldiers also abducted former political prisoner, Hamal Jaber Hamamra, 59, and his son, Mohammad, 20, in addition to Shehab Zaghloul and Mustafa Ali Shousha, 22, from their homes in Husan.
In related news, the soldiers invaded Shuqba village, west of Ramallah in central West Bank, and fired gas bombs and concussion grenades.
At dawn Sunday, the Palestinian Health Ministry announced that Hassan Ahmad Jamil Mousa, 19, was killed by occupation forces in the Old Askar refugee camp, in Nablus in northern West Bank.
On Thursday afternoon, Israeli forces killed two Palestinian children in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Health Ministry identified the slain children as Bilal Baha’ Ali Sabarna, 16, and Mohammad Mahmoud Abu Ayyash, 15, and stated that the occupation forces confiscated their bodies, taking them to an unknown location.
Since the beginning of the year, Israeli forces and paramilitary colonizers have killed 240 Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank, including 49 children and 7 women.
Since the beginning of the year, occupation forces and illegal colonizers have killed 80 Palestinians in Jenin, 43 in Nablus, 31 in Tubas, 22 in Hebron, 19 in Ramallah, 17 in Tulkarem, 9 in Bethlehem, 9 in Jerusalem, 6 in Qalqilia, 3 in Salfit, and 1 in Jericho, according to the Shireen Observatory.
Since October 7, 2023, Israeli forces and illegal paramilitary colonizers have intensified their assaults across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem—killing at least 1,048 Palestinians, including 206 children, and injuring approximately 9,674 others, among them 1,697 children. More than 20,500 Palestinians have been abducted during this period, including at least 1,600 children.
Human rights organizations such as Defense for Children International – Palestine have repeatedly warned that Israeli forces are increasingly targeting Palestinian children with impunity, citing a pattern of live-fire killings during invasions across the occupied West Bank.
