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Israeli Troops Shoot 9-Year-Old; UN Decries Unprecedented Child Deaths

6/30/2026

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Israeli soldiers shot a nine-year-old boy in West Bank, photographed with a UNICEF bag.
UN commission says Gaza’s child death toll is unprecedented and targeting breaches humanitarian law.
B’Tselem and Yesh Din report none of 54 Palestinian children killed in 2025 were linked to militants.
Families say soldiers fired without warning and investigations yielded no answers while Israeli military says cases are under Military Police review and deaths involve terrorist activity.

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Israeli soldiers shot a nine-year-old boy in West Bank, photographed with a UNICEF bag.
UN commission says Gaza’s child death toll is unprecedented and targeting breaches humanitarian law.
B’Tselem and Yesh Din report none of 54 Palestinian children killed in 2025 were linked to militants.
Families say soldiers fired without warning and investigations yielded no answers while Israeli military says cases are under Military Police review and deaths involve terrorist activity.