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The United Nations condemned connected Tuesday (May 12, 2026) the toll from swelling Israeli subject operations and settler attacks successful the occupied West Bank connected children, with 70 Palestinian children killed since aboriginal 2025.
"Children are paying an intolerable terms for escalating subject operations and settler attacks crossed the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem," UN children's bureau spokesperson James Elder told reporters.
Since January 2025, erstwhile Israel began a large-scale subject cognition successful the West Bank, "at slightest 1 Palestinian kid has been killed connected mean each azygous week" there, helium said, adding that different 850 children had been injured during that period.
"Most of those killed oregon wounded were done by unrecorded ammunition," helium said.
Children shot, stabbed, beaten
Mr. Elder said that Israeli forces were liable for a afloat 93% of the children killed successful the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since January 2025, but besides pointed to "historic levels of settler attacks".
According to the UN, March 2026 saw the highest fig of Palestinians injured by Israeli settlers successful astatine slightest 20 years, helium said, pointing to "documented incidents (including) children shot, stabbed... beaten".
Mr. Elder, who precocious returned from the West Bank, told the communicative of 1 eight-year-old boy, who was dormant erstwhile settlers attacked his village.
"His household location had been demolished 2 months earlier, truthful helium was sleeping outside," helium said, adding that the lad "was beaten with a portion of wood and hospitalised for caput injuries".
The boy's mother, meantime "had some her arms breached erstwhile she reached crossed to support her four-month-old baby", helium said.
Mr. Elder highlighted that the convulsive attacks were taking spot against the backdrop of the "steady dismantling of the conditions children request to past and grow".
"Homes are demolished, acquisition is destroyed, h2o systems are attacked, entree to healthcare is obstructed, question is restricted," helium said.
A melodramatic spike successful the fig of barriers and restrictions imposed crossed the West Bank meantime meant children were "routinely chopped disconnected from schools, from hospitals and different indispensable services", helium said.
