One child is killed on average every week since January 2025 in the West Bank, according to UNICEF

Seventy Palestinian children person been killed successful the West Bank since the commencement of Israeli operations successful January 2025, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) announced today, clarifying that 93% of them were killed by Israeli forces.

“Children are paying an unbearable terms owed to the escalation of subject operations and attacks crossed the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem,” UNICEF spokesperson James Elder said during a property league successful Geneva.

“Thus, from January 2025 to today, astatine slightest 1 Palestinian kid has been killed connected mean each week successful the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, which is nether Israeli control. This corresponds to 70 Palestinian children killed during this period,” helium added, noting that a further 850 children were besides injured during the aforesaid timeframe.

He clarified that 93% of the children who died were killed “by Israeli forces.”

For the bulk of those killed oregon injured, this occurred “by unrecorded ammunition,” the UNICEF spokesperson said.

He stressed that UNICEF is calling connected Israeli authorities “to instrumentality contiguous and decisive measures to forestall further children from being killed oregon maimed and to support their households, schools, and entree to water, successful accordance with planetary law.”

“UNICEF is besides calling connected subordinate states with power to usage it to guarantee respect for planetary law,” helium said.

Violence successful the West Bank has surged since the commencement of the warfare successful Gaza, triggered by the deadly onslaught by the Palestinian Islamist radical Hamas connected October 7, 2023 successful confederate Israel. In January 2025, the Israeli service launched an “anti-terror operation” chiefly targeting Palestinian exile camps successful the West Bank.