ISRAELI OCCUPIED Child rights organisation Defence for Children International – Palestine (DCIP) has released information about the killing of a 17-year-old Palestinian by Israeli forces over the weekend.

 

Ahmad Khalil Rajabi was driving his family’s vehicle in Hebron when Israeli soldiers fatally shot him on Sunday evening before seizing his body.

 

The soldiers involved attempted to justify the shooting by alleging that Ahmad had tried to run over one of them. His father rejected the claim, saying his son was "visiting a patient at the hospital and was on his way home" when he was killed, according to the DCIP’s statement.

 

"Israel’s practice of withholding Palestinian bodies is a form of collective punishment, a flagrant violation of international humanitarian law, and deprives Palestinian families of the ability to lay their children to rest," the DCIP said.

 

So far this year, Israeli forces and settlers have killed 53 Palestinian children in the occupied West Bank.  

 

With Ahmad’s body now withheld, the total number of Palestinian minors whose remains Israel has refused to return since 2016 has reached 55.   - (ANA) - 

 

 

AB/ANA/11 December 2025 - - -