On Monday evening, Israeli soldiers killed a Palestinian child in the town of Tuqu’, southeast of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank.
Taysir Abu Mofarreh, head of the Tuqu’ municipal council, stated that 16‑year‑old Ammar Yasser Mohammad Ta’amra was shot in the chest by Israeli soldiers and succumbed to his wounds.
Medical teams transferred him first to the town’s clinic, where he was pronounced dead, before his body was moved to Beit Jala Government Hospital.
Abu Mofarreh added that Israeli forces stormed the town, leading to protests before soldiers randomly fired live rounds, tear gas, and stun grenades, fatally wounding the child and causing several cases of suffocation among residents.
Eyewitnesses reported that Israeli forces also surrounded worshippers inside Abu Bakr as‑Siddiq Mosque in the town center during evening prayers, preventing them from leaving while firing tear gas into the area.
On Sunday evening, 23 year old Mohammad Wael al-Sharouf was killed by Israeli occupation forces at the northern entrance of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank.
Also Sunday, the Detainees’ Affairs Authority and the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) reported, on Sunday, the death of Palestinian detainee, Sakhr Ahmad Za’oul (26 years old) from the town of Husan, west of Bethlehem. Za’oul was abducted in June of 2025, while Israeli authorities tortured him, despite having no charges filed against him.
On Saturday, Israeli forces killed the Palestinian child, Mohammad Eyad Mohammad Abahra (16 years old) and confiscated his body, after shooting him in the town of Silat al-Harithiya, northwest of Jenin in the northern West Bank.
Since the beginning of the Israeli military aggression against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, occupation forces have killed 1098 Palestinian citizens in the West Bank, including 227 children and 24 women.
In the Jenin governorate, 308 Palestinians have been killed, while 213 were killed in Tulkarem, 138 in Nablus, 105 in Hebron, 98 in Tubas, 81 in Ramallah, 60 in Jerusalem, 42 in Qalqilia, 33 in Bethlehem, 13 in Jericho and the Jordan Valley, and 7 in Salfit, according to the Shireen Observatory.
