A relative mourns the death of Amir Ahmad Jawad Jaber, a Palestinian teenager who was killed by Israeli forces, at a hospital in Ramallah, on 29 June 2026. [Getty]
Israeli forces fatally shot a 15-year-old Palestinian teenager during a raid in the occupied West Bank on Monday, the Palestinian health ministry said, as violence surges in the Israeli-occupied territory.
“The child Amir Ahmad Jawad Jaber, 15 years old, was martyred after being shot in the head and once in the chest by occupation soldiers during their raid in the Umm al-Sharayit neighbourhood in Al-Bireh” near the West Bank city of Ramallah, the ministry said.
The Israeli military said in a statement that its troops opened fire on people throwing stones.
Israel describes stone-throwers as “terrorists” and authorises its soldiers to fire on them with live ammunition.
The Palestinian Red Crescent had earlier said its teams were transporting to hospital and trying to resuscitate a 15-year-old who was shot in the head with live ammunition during a raid in the Umm al-Sharayit area.
Dozens of mourners gathered at the Palestine Medical Complex as grieving relatives wept over the teenager’s body.
“Today, we witnessed a clear-cut execution in broad daylight,” Laila Ghannam, governor of Ramallah and Al-Bireh, told AFP.
“This is a disgrace to all institutions who claim to uphold democracy and human rights.
“When it comes to our cause, they see nothing. They allow this occupation to escalate its campaign of terror every single day – not only across Palestine, but throughout the entire region.”
Since the start of the Gaza war in October 2023, violence has escalated in the West Bank, which Israel has occupied since 1967.
Israeli soldiers or settlers have killed at least 1,085 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 2023, including both fighters and civilians, according to an AFP tally based on Palestinian health ministry data, which says 71 people were killed in 2026.
(AFP and TNA staff)
