Israeli Forces Kill 70 Palestinian Children In West Bank Since January 2025

UNICEF said that seventy Palestinian children have been killed in the West Bank since the start of Israeli operations in January 2025, with UNICEF spokesperson James Elder telling reporters in Geneva that 93% were killed by Israeli forces.

“Seventy Palestinian children have been killed in the West Bank since the start of Israeli operations in January 2025, UNICEF said on Tuesday, noting that 93% of them were killed by Israeli forces”

Blick

Blick reported that UNICEF said the deaths include East Jerusalem under Israeli control, and that between January 2025 and today at least one Palestinian child has been killed on average every week in the occupied West Bank.

Blick

UN News added that an additional 850 children have been injured, and that most of those killed or injured were shot with live ammunition.

UN News also said the escalation is occurring in a context where settler attacks have reached historically high levels, and that OCHA reported March 2026 recorded the highest number of Palestinians wounded by settler attacks in the past 20 years.

In the same UN News account, UNICEF said these deaths and injuries are accompanied by a sharp rise in the arrest and detention of children, with the latest data indicating 347 Palestinian children are currently detained by the Israeli army on security-related offenses.

UN News said that more than half of the 347 detained Palestinian children are held in administrative detention without the procedural safeguards required, including regular access to a lawyer and the right to challenge their detention.

UN News reported that this figure was not seen in eight years, and it linked the deterioration to a broader context of tightening restrictions on Palestinian populations in the West Bank.

L'Humanité

The UN agency said that over the past 30 months, more than 900 additional barriers and restrictions have been imposed across the West Bank, and that Palestinian children are regularly deprived of access to schools, hospitals, and other essential services.

UN News described how the education system has become exposed to violence and obstacles, saying UNICEF records 99 education-related incidents in 2026 alone, including murders, injuries and detentions of students, the demolition of schools, and denial of access.

In that same account, UNICEF said that in the first four months of this year more than 2,500 Palestinians, including 1,100 children, have been displaced, exceeding the total number of displacements recorded for all of 2025.

UN News said that deadly violence persists in the Gaza Strip despite ceasefire announcements, and it reported UNICEF records 229 child deaths and 260 injuries since October 2025.

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Le Figaro

The same UN News account said the WHO estimates that about 10,000 children in Gaza live with disabling injuries, and it reported that in total 43,000 of the 172,000 injured since October 2023 have suffered severe trauma to the limbs, the spine, or the brain.

UN News also reported that almost 2,500 people have been injured since the ceasefire of October 2025, and it said that among 2,277 amputees fewer than 25% have a permanent prosthesis due to a lack of equipment.

Le Temps, focusing on the West Bank, described how the Abu Haikal family buried Sam, a 7-month-old baby, after an Israeli soldier opened fire on the vehicle carrying the family in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron on Friday, June 5.

Le Temps quoted B'Tselem commenting on June 10 that “The impunity with which Israel benefits from the international community has led to a situation where, under Israeli occupation, Palestinian life has no value—even that of a seven-month-old baby,” tying the accounts of violence to the broader context of occupation.