Overview

• Israeli forces shot dead 15-year-old Ahmad Ali Asaad Ashira al-Salah and 17-year-old Muhammad Khaled Alian Issa during a dawn raid in al-Khader, south of Bethlehem.
• The Israel Defense Forces has withheld the boys’ bodies and arrested at least 25 Palestinians in coordinated raids across multiple West Bank towns.
• On Wednesday, the Knesset approved a non-binding motion by a 71-13 vote calling for Israeli sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and the Jordan Valley.
• The UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reports that since October 2023 nearly 948 Palestinians, including more than 200 children, have been killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank.
• UN OCHA figures record that between January 2024 and June 2025, over 2,200 Israeli settler attacks caused more than 5,200 Palestinian injuries and nearly 36,000 forced displacements.