In a troubling turn of events in the occupied West Bank, a 14-year-old Palestinian boy named Moataz Daghlas lost his life after being shot by Israeli forces during an operation. The incident occurred on Monday evening in the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, according to the Palestinian health ministry. The Israeli military claimed that soldiers identified a group intending to throw stones at a road frequently targeted by Israeli vehicles, prompting them to fire in order to eliminate the threat. However, the Palestinian Red Crescent stated that their teams treated two individuals with gunshot wounds, while Israeli forces impeded access to a third wounded person and detained three volunteer paramedics. Moataz's family alleged that Israeli authorities were withholding his body. The UN reported that at least 98 Palestinians, including 22 children, have been killed by Israeli forces or settlers in the West Bank since the beginning of the year. Six Israelis have also lost their lives due to Palestinian attacks in the same period, as per UN records. The broadened rules of engagement for Israeli forces, allowing increased discretion to use lethal force against perceived threats, were reportedly implemented after the deadly Hamas-led attacks on Israel on 7 October 2023. Since then, the UN Human Rights Office in the occupied Palestinian territory has verified the killing of 241 Palestinian children by Israeli security forces and settlers in the West Bank. The UN office found that most of these children were teenage boys and in many cases, Israeli authorities accused them of stone-throwing as justification for their deaths. The UN assessment suggests that none of the children killed during confrontations with Israeli forces posed an imminent threat to life, which is the only legal justification for lethal force under international law in the West Bank.