On 23 July 2025, as military vehicles were withdrawing from the town of Qabatiyah after a raid, some boys threw stones at them from a hill in the nearby town of ‘Araba. Soldiers who got out of one of the vehicles chased them into the olive groves, fired at them and killed Ibrahim Hamran. The other boys managed to escape. Paramedics who arrived at the scene about an hour after the shooting took Hamran to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Ibrahim’s mother, Manal Hamran, 48, a mother of six, recounted in a testimony she gave B’Tselem field researcher Abdulkarim Sadi on 28 March 2026:
On the afternoon of 23 July 2025, my son Ibrahim, who was 13 and a half years old, told me he was going out to play and hang out with his friends. They’d usually meet up in the afternoon to play soccer in the high school yard or walk around the streets and alleyways of the town.
At around 3:30 P.M. that day, news started spreading on social media that a boy was shot by the Israeli army, and that a Palestinian ambulance took him to Jenin Government Hospital, where he arrived with no signs of life.
Ibrahim was physically strong and well-built. He was very sociable and really loved playing soccer. He was the goalkeeper for the local team. He always asked me to cook his favorite foods for him, especially meat dishes.
He was the youngest in the family, and he took care of his sisters. They had an excellent relationship.
He was a kind-hearted boy. Whenever I gave him money to buy sweets and chips, he’d buy pastrami to feed the cats in the yard. I could see how happy it made him to spoil the cats instead of buying things for himself, and how he loved them.
Since my son disappeared from our lives more than eight months ago, we haven’t stopped thinking and talking about him. We’re all sad and in pain over his loss.
Ibrahim Hamran, 13