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New footage obtained by B’Tselem uncovers the moments when the Abu Haikal family was shot. Seven-month-old Sam Abu Haikal was killed in the shooting, and both his parents were injured. The footage clearly shows that the Israeli soldier fired at the car as it was slowing to a stop. The car was far from the soldiers and posed no danger to them whatsoever. Moments later, in another video obtained by B’Tselem, seven-month-old Sam’s father, Fahed, is seen just after his son was shot. Fahed is holding baby Sam in his arms, trying to stop the bleeding from his head with his hands, while Sam’s mother, Daniyah, who was also injured by the gunfire while holding her son, is seen sitting on the ground, next to the car. Last Friday, 5 June, an Israeli soldier fired at a Palestinian family driving home from a family visit, as they sat in their car in the Tel Rumeidah neighborhood in Hebron. The family was shot as the car was slowing to a stop at the soldier’s command. Sam, a seven‑month‑old baby who was in his mother’s arms in the back seat, was struck in the head and pronounced dead shortly afterward. Sam’s parents were also injured by the gunfire; his mother is still in the hospital. After the shooting, the soldier who fired and another soldier who was with him left the scene without checking the car or offering any assistance to the critically wounded baby or to his mother. In the past two and a half years, Israel has killed tens of thousands of children in Gaza and the West Bank. The immunity it gets from the international community has led to a reality where, under Israeli rule, Palestinian lives are entirely disposable – even a seven‑month‑old baby.
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“This is silly Taha”, his sister was filming to tease him, as she captured his death. >
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On October 26, 2025, Muhammad Bahajat al-Halaq, 9, was playing soccer with other children and teenagers in the schoolyard of the village of a-Rihiya in the Hebron district. During the game, two military jeeps entered the village. Fearing that the soldiers would fire tear gas at them, as had happened before, the children ran from the playground and hid among the houses. Four soldiers exited one of the jeeps. Two of them began shooting in the direction in which the children had fled. One soldier fired tear gas canisters, while the other fired live ammunition. One of the bullets struck Muhammad. After he was shot, the soldiers continued firing tear gas toward the spot where he had fallen. When a local resident tried to reach Muhammad, the soldiers shot at him as well. Eventually, the man managed to reach Muhammad and evacuate him. Muhammad was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead. His mother, ‘Aliyah, said that Muhammad loved soccer, was an excellent student, and dreamed of becoming a doctor. “When he played with his brothers, he would always ask them to call him ‘Dr. Muhammad.’ But that dream will never be fulfilled now that he has been shot and killed by an Israeli soldier.” Muhammad is one of 54 children and teens killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank in 2025. Our report, Unshielded Childhood, tells their stories and the circumstances that led to each of their deaths. Since October 2023, 1,100 Palestinians have been killed by Israel in the West Bank, including 242 children and teenagers, through 27 July 2026. This reality is the result of an Israeli policy that enables and sanctions the killings, with no one held accountable. Read our latest report, “Unshielded Childhood” >>
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم181,185 views • 2 months ago
Israel has turned its prisons into a network of torture camps for Palestinians. Prisoners are subjected to severe violence, deliberate humiliation, starvation, sleep deprivation, denial of medical care and abuse in everyfacility they are held in. Some have also been severely sexually assaulted. Since October 2023, at least 84 Palestinians have died in these torture camps. The policymakers, and primarily Minister of National Security Itamar Ben Gvir, brag in TV puff pieces and on social media about what is happening in these torture camps. Today, we published “Living Hell”, a report on the situation of Palestinians in Israeli custody. It is based on the testimonies of Palestinians released in recent months, along with research, reports, news updates and Israel Prison Service figures, and continues our previous report on the issue, “Welcome to Hell”, from August 2024. Systematic, deliberate abuse continues to define Israel’s policy toward Palestinian prisoners in its custody, and is another feature of the Israeli regime’s coordinated onslaught on the Palestinian people. Link to the full report >
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم591,134 views • 9 months ago
תיעוד חדש שהגיע לידי בצלם חושף את רגעי הירי במשפחת אבו הייכל, שכתוצאה ממנו נהרג סאם אבו הייכל, תינוק בן 7 חודשים, ונפצעו שני הוריו. מהתיעוד עולה בבירור כי הירי שביצע החייל לעבר הרכב בוצע בזמן שנהג הרכב האט את נסיעתו לקראת עצירה, וכאשר היה במרחק מהחיילים ולא היווה כל סכנה עבורם. בהמשך, בסרטון נוסף שהגיע לידי בצלם, נראה פאהד, אביו של סאם בן ה-7 חודשים, ברגעים הראשונים לאחר הירי בבנו. האב נראה כאשר הוא אוחז בתינוק ומנסה לעצור בידיו את הדימום מראשו. עוד ניתן לראותבתיעוד את אימו של התינוק, דאניה, שנפצעה גם היא מהירי בזמן שאחזה בבנה, כשהיא יושבת על הכביש לצד רכב המשפחה. ביום שישי האחרון, 5 ביוני, חייל ישראלי פתח באש קטלנית לעבר משפחה פלסטינית, שחזרה מביקור משפחתי, בעת שנסעה ברכבה בשכונת תל רומיידה בחברון. הירי בוצע לאחר שאב המשפחה, שנהג ברכב, הבחיןבחיילים שעמדו על הכביש והאט. סאם, תינוק בן 7 חודשים, שהיה באותה עת בזרועותיה של אימו במושב האחורי, נפגע בראשו מהירי ומותו נקבע זמן קצר לאחר מכן. מהירי נפצעו גם אביו של סאם ואימו, שעדייןמאושפזת בבית החולים. לאחר הירי החייל היורה וחייל נוסף שהיה עמו עזבו את המקום מבלי לבדוק את הרכב ומבלי להגיש סיוע לתינוק הפצוע אנוש ולאימו. בשנתיים וחצי האחרונות ישראל הרגה למעלה מ-20,000 ילדים בעזה ובגדה המערבית. החסינות שהמערכת הישראלית מעניקה לחיילים ולמתנחלים הובילה למציאות יומיומית בה הרג של פלסטינים, באשר הוא, נתמך ומגובה על ידי המערכת - אפילו כשמדובר בתינוק בן 7 חודשים.
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم279,611 views • 4 months ago
Watch: Yuli Novak, B’Tselem’s Executive Director, speaking at the launch of our new report, The Elimination Project, and calling on the international community to act: “How much more evidence do you need before you act? Statements do not protect anyone until they become action. Every day without meaningful action gives Israel more time to deepen this project and make it harder to reverse.” The Elimination Project shows how Israel is systematically using interconnected mechanisms: violence, displacement, restrictions on movement, economic strangulation and political repression to dismantle the conditions that allow Palestinians to exist as a collective in the West Bank, while expanding and entrenching Israeli control and Jewish supremacy. The international community must stop treating these isolated violations and end the impunity that allows this system to continue. Read the full report >>
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم96,340 views • 1 month ago
For the first time since the 1967 occupation, Israel is expelling an entire Palestinian neighborhood in Jerusalem. The Silwan area, located near the "Holy Basin," the Temple Mount, and al-Aqsa Mosque, is home to many archaeological and historical sites of exceptional significance. As of April 2026, approximately 1,800 residents in Silwan are under threat of expulsion, after hundreds have already been uprooted and left homeless in the past two years. In Baten al-Hawa alone, 33 families have already been expelled, and 53 additional families, including 130 children, face a similar fate. In al-Bustan, Israel has already demolished 48 homes and plans to demolish the homes of 123 more families, which will lead to the expulsion of approximately 1,450 people. The expulsion in Silwan is part of a policy of ethnic cleansing throughout the entire West Bank. Link to the full article >>
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In 2025, Israel killed 54 Palestinian children and teens in the West Bank. in B’Tselem’s latest report, we bring you the story of each and every one. Since 7 October 2023, Israel has killed 1,086 Palestinians in the West Bank; 241 of them were children or teens, including Sam Abu Haikal, a seven-month-old baby . The violence did not stop with the act of injuring or killing. In many cases, the forces held up medical teams trying to access the child, without offering first aid themselves. Israel is still holding 18 of the bodies, a practice it frequently employs, which amplifies the families’ suffering. Under the Israeli regime, no Palestinian is safe, while any Israeli who harms them enjoys close to full impunity. Read our latest report, which presents the stories of all 54 children and teens killed last year>>
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم215,623 views • 4 months ago
The ʿAsʿus family was about to sit down for dinner when they heard gunfire from the street. Everyone rushed to take cover. Two-year-old Layla was sitting in her mother’s lap when a bullet struck her in the head. She was later pronounced dead at the hospital. The shooters were Israeli soldiers who had were carrying out a raid in a neighboring home in the village of Muthallath a-Shuhada in Jenin District, on 25 January 2025. Layla is one of 54 children and teens killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank in 2025. Our new report, Unshielded Childhood, released this week, tells their stories and the circumstances that led to each of their deaths. Since October 2023, Israel has killed 241 children and teenagers in the West Bank, the highest number of Palestinian minors killed there since the territory was occupied in 1967. This is the result of an Israeli policy that enables and backs the killing of Palestinians, without anyone being held to account. Read our latest report, "Unshielded Childhood" >>
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم162,461 views • 4 months ago
Israeli lawmakers opened bottles of champagne last night (Monday, March 30), to celebrate the introduction of the death penalty for Palestinians into Israeli law. Since October 2023, Israel has killed at least 72,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and at least 1,050 in the West Bank. During this time, more than 80 Palestinian have died in Israeli prisons, which have become a network of torture camps where inmates are subjected to continuous abuse and violence. The Death Penalty Law is another tool Israel is using to kill Palestinians.
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم269,341 views • 7 months ago
Israel has been working to oust Palestinians from the South Hebron Hills for many years. Efforts intensified after October 2023, and since then, hundreds of organized attacks against local Palestinian residents and shepherds have been recorded. In January 2026 alone, more than 200 attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians were documented in villages in the area. Over the course of this time, settlers invaded Palestinian-owned farmland and killed two local residents. Settler militias operate as an informal arm of the state: armed with military-issued weapons and riding ATVs and horses, they invade communities under the protection of military forces, who either turn a blind eye to the violence or take an active part in it. The violence in the South Hebron Hills is part of the policy of ethnic cleansing that Israel is implementing throughout the West Bank. To the full report >>
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم206,077 views • 5 months ago
Israel is displacing entire Palestinian communities, while new Israeli outposts are being established at an unprecedented pace. Settler militias are taking control of vast areas, and military operations have displaced tens of thousands from refugee camps in the northern West Bank. These incidents form part of an escalating process of ethnic cleansing of Palestinian communities and the takeover of Palestinian land carried out through a coordinated system involving political leaders, government authorities, the military, the police and settler militias, backed by Israel’s legal and law enforcement systems. This process pushes Palestinians from their land into rapidly shrinking spaces, deliberately cut off from each another, while establishing, expanding and reinforcing Jewish-Israeli control. The methods Israel uses to intimidate and displace Palestinians are varied. Homes and other structures are demolished, while entire communities are forcibly displaced from their land by the violence of settler militias, supported by state authorities. The state also carries out military campaigns and attacks that have displaced and expelled tens of thousands of Palestinians from refugee camps in the West Bank. This decades-long process has accelerated under the current government. Between 2023 and 2025, 185 new settlement outposts were established, about 130 of them farms. Settler militias using these outposts as bases now control more than 1.07 million dunams, or 18% of the West Bank. 65 Palestinian communities have been completely displaced, and 18 others have been partially displaced. This is the Elimination Project. Read more in our new report >>
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم40,407 views • 29 days ago
What is really happening in the West Bank? To understand the reality, one must look beyond isolated events and examine the system that connects them. Join B’Tselem Executive Director, Yuli Novak, and Karim Jubran, B’Tselem’s Field Research Director, on a journey through the West Bank to see Israel’s elimination project in action, and to understand how its implementation has accelerated in recent years. The film presents the central conclusions of our new report, “The Elimination Project,” which was published today. It brings together what we document daily across the West Bank: lethal violence, dispossession, settlement expansion, home demolitions, and the institutionalized dismantling of the conditions that sustain Palestinian life. Only by connecting these Phenomena can we see the system for what it is. Israel is employing coordinated mechanisms to dismantle the very infrastructure that allows Palestinians to exist in the West Bank as a collective, while simultaneously expanding and entrenching Israeli control and Jewish presence across the territory. Watch the film to get the full picture: the elimination project, what it is, how it operates, and how it has grown out of decades of Israeli apartheid. Connect the dots. See the system. Read the full report >>
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم55,833 views • 1 month ago
Israel is no longer hiding its intentions. They are now out in the open. In recent years, ministers, MKs, top military officers, and even the prime minister himself have openly boasted about the Elimination Project Israel is implementing in the West Bank. They take pride in the violence, land grabs, settlement expansion, the expulsion of Palestinians from their land, home demolitions, and efforts to change the reality on the ground. What was once denied or hidden is now being said openly. No need to guess or search for hidden plans. Just listen to what they say and look at what is happening on the ground. B’Tselem’s new report shows that these are not merely isolated extremist remarks. They reflect a political plan, backed by an entire system designed to carry it out. Its purpose is to dismantle the very infrastructure that allows Palestinians to exist as a collective in the West Bank, while expanding and reinforcing Israeli control and Jewish presence across the area. This is the elimination project, and it is being carried out in the open. Read more about “The Elimination Project” on our website.
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم53,723 views • 1 month ago
The ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem is happening now! Large Israeli forces entered the Silwan neighborhood today, 25 March, to evict 11 Palestinian families from their homes. Amidst the ongoing illegal and lethal Israeli-American offensive against Iran, Israel is expanding its ethnic cleansing in East Jerusalem, throwing Palestinian families into the streets. The eviction of 11 families, marks the continuation of a massive displacement wave: approximately 2,200 people in Silwan are facing an imminent threat of forced displacement, 150 families (1,500 individuals) in al-Bustan and 90 families (700 individuals) in Baten al-Hawa. This is the reality of systematic, institutionalized violence and a clear manifestation of an Israeli policy aimed at engineering the demographic balance and "Judaizing" the neighborhood by exploiting discriminatory laws. These measures are designed to expand Israeli presence and control over one of the most politically and religiously sensitive areas in the region, serving as a crucial component of the broader ethnic cleansing currently unfolding across the West Bank.
B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم210,164 views • 7 months ago