Overview
- Published on Feb. 26, the BBC investigation uses verified phone and CCTV videos and eyewitness accounts to piece together the November 2025 shooting in the al‑Far'a refugee camp.
- The footage shows Israeli soldiers surrounding wounded Jad Jadallah and preventing Palestinian ambulances from reaching him as he bled for at least 45 minutes before being taken away in a military vehicle.
- The Israel Defense Forces told the BBC the boy had thrown a stone and said soldiers provided first aid and transported him, while Il Post reports the army says it will open an investigation.
- One clip appears to show a soldier dropping an object beside the boy and taking a photograph, which the family and rights activists describe as a possible attempt to plant evidence.
- Israeli authorities have not returned Jadallah’s body to his family, and rights groups cite UN figures documenting dozens of Palestinian child deaths in the West Bank in 2025 and hundreds since October 2023.