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Gaza strikes and deaths
Israeli attacks killed at least eight Palestinians in Gaza, including two children, after an Israeli drone attacked the Wadi al-Salqa bridge on al-Baraka Street in central Gaza on Monday morning, killing eight-year-old Malik Wael Abu Shaweesh and others, according to the Wafa news agency.
“An Israeli drone attacked the Wadi al-Salqa bridge on al-Baraka Street in central Gaza”
In another incident in southern Gaza, a displaced twenty-three year old woman and her one-year old daughter were killed when their tent was hit by an Israeli attack in the al-Mawasi neighbourhood in Khan Younis.
The same Al Jazeera report also said Israeli strike in the town of Qarara, north west of Khan Younis, killed a thirty-one year old man, and two people were killed when an Israeli strike hit a tent sheltering displaced Palestinians along the coastal area of Khan Younis.
In the occupied West Bank, 15-year-old Ahmad Jawad Jaber died on the way to hospital after being shot in the chest and head during an Israeli raid on the Umm al-Sharayit neighbourhood in el-Bireh, near Ramallah, the Palestinian health ministry said.
Laila Ghannam, the governor of Ramallah and el-Bireh, said of the killing, “Today, we witnessed a clear-cut execution in broad daylight,” and added that his killing was “a disgrace to all institutions who claim to uphold democracy and human rights”.
Rights groups decry impunity
B’Tselem, the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, released a report detailing 54 cases in which Israeli forces killed Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank in 2025, and said that “From Oct. 7, 2023 to June 28, 2026, Israel killed 1,086 Palestinians in the West Bank, 241 of them children and teenagers.”
B’Tselem Executive Director Yuli Novak said the “widespread, unprecedented killing of Palestinian children and teenagers in the West Bank is the result of a broader Israeli policy that enables the killing of Palestinians with virtually no accountability,” and the report argued the killings were not isolated mistakes or violations of military orders.
The Arab News report also said B’Tselem linked the pattern to remarks by Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, who boasted that Israel is killing Palestinians in the West Bank “like we haven’t killed since 1967,” and it added that B’Tselem was “not aware of a single indictment filed in Israel since October 2023.”
CNN Arabic reported that B’Tselem said at least 240 Palestinian children and teenagers have been killed in the West Bank since Hamas’ attack on October 7, 2023, and that “no charges have been brought in cases involving children killed in the West Bank since the start of the war on Gaza.”
CNN Arabic also said the Israeli army rejected the report, stating it “does not intentionally target civilians,” and that any claim of harm “is being carefully reviewed and investigated by the competent authorities.”
What comes next in Gaza
B’Tselem’s reporting tied West Bank killings to Gaza, saying “The killings in the West Bank cannot be separated from Israel’s killing of more than 21,000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip,” and it argued that allowing Israel to kill “on such a scale in Gaza without consequences” gives a “green light” to pursue the same lethal policy in the West Bank.
““The killings in the West Bank cannot be separated from Israel’s killing of more than 21,000 Palestinian children in the Gaza Strip,””
The Arab News report further said Israel is still withholding the bodies of 18 of the 54 children and teenagers killed in 2025, and it described cases where Israeli forces delayed or prevented medical teams or local residents from reaching wounded children and teenagers.
In Gaza, Al Jazeera reported that Israeli attacks on Sunday killed at least four Palestinians in Gaza, including 13-year-old Eileen al-Farra, who died from shrapnel wounds after shelling in the south of the strip.
Senego reported that thirteen United Nations experts reiterated their call for an immediate halt to Israeli attacks against Palestinian civilians displaced in the Gaza Strip and to eviction measures in the occupied West Bank, and said the experts revisited incidents in March.
Senego said the experts described a “cycle of displacement and targeted attacks” aimed at making life untenable for Palestinians and forcing them to leave their land, and it added that the panel likened multiple relocations in Gaza to a forced transfer under international humanitarian law.
