News Center -13 Palestinian children have been killed in the West Bank since January 2022, says the statement written by Adele Khodr UNICEF Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa. In the statement, Adele Khodr has called on all parties to the conflict to "protect all children, at all times, everywhere.”

"Since the beginning of the year, 13 Palestinian children have been killed in the West Bank - almost double the number compared to last year," she wrote in the statement. “That is 13 lives lost, 13 lives cut short, 13 dreams shattered.”

On Friday, a 14 year-old Palestinian child was killed by Israeli gunfire in Bethlehem. Zaid Saeed Ghuneim was the third Palestinian child killed over the course of a single week, “His death follows the killing of Ghaith Yamen (16 years-old) on Friday and Amjad Fayed (17 years-old) on May 21. Both children were shot dead by Israeli soldiers during separate raids on the city of Jenin,” the statement says.