On Sunday evening, Israeli forces fatally shoot 15-year-old Jadallah Jad Jom’a Jadallah, and injured 2 Palestinians, in Al-Far’a refugee camp near Tubas in the northeastern West Bank.
The slain child was a ninth-grade student Al-Far’a Boys’ Basic School, run by UNRWA in the refugee camp.
Jadallah was struck by live fire and left without medical assistance, as Israeli troops obstructed ambulance crews from reaching him. His death was confirmed shortly afterward, and his body remains in Israeli custody.
The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that its teams treated two additional casualties during the invasions: a 16-year-old boy wounded by shrapnel in the abdomen and an 18-year-old youth with injuries to his lower limbs.
The incursion into Al-Far’a camp followed earlier invasions in the nearby town of Aqqaba and the city of Tubas.
Eyewitnesses described the use of multiple armored vehicles and widespread deployment of Israeli troops throughout the refugee camp, triggering protests.
The Ministry of Education mourned Jadallah’s death, emphasizing that he was a student in the ninth grade and condemning the targeting of children and educational institutions.
His killing adds to the mounting toll of Palestinian children killed in Israeli invasions across the occupied West Bank.
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.
