Headline Roundup • April 8th, 2025
Israeli Forces Kill 14-Year-Old American ‘Terrorist’ in West Bank
Summary from the AllSides News Team
A 14-year-old Palestinian-American boy was shot and killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank, Palestinian officials said on Sunday.
The Details: The funeral for Amir Mohammed Rabee, an American citizen from Saddle Brook, New Jersey, was held on Monday. Two other boys were also shot by Israeli forces but survived. Israel’s military confirmed that it shot the children, who it claimed were “terrorists” endangering civilians.
Key Quote: The Israel Defense Forces (IDF), “During a counterterrorism activity in the area of Turmus Aya, IDF soldiers identified three terrorists who hurled rocks toward the highway, thus endangering civilians driving. The soldiers opened fire toward the terrorists who were endangering civilians, eliminating one terrorist and hitting two additional terrorists.”
For Context: In September, American-Turkish dual citizen Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was killed by Israeli forces during a protest in the West Bank. In October, American journalist Jeremy Loffredo of The Grayzone (Left bias) was detained and interrogated by Israel for four days while reporting in the West Bank.
How The Media Covered It: As of early April 8, the story was covered widely by mainstream outlets from the left, but coverage from the right and center was scant. AllSides only found coverage from The New York Post (Lean Right bias), Reuters (Center), and BBC News (Center). Outlets varied on how they described Rabee in headlines. CBS News (Lean Left) described him as “American” while Reuters described him as a “Palestinian teenager with U.S. citizenship.”
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Ammar Awad/REUTERS
The funeral of 14-year-old Palestinian-American Amir Mohammed Rabee was held Monday in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, one day after the dual national from New Jersey was shot and killed there. Two other teenage boys, one whose family told CBS News he is also a U.S. citizen, were shot but survived.
Rabee's father told CBS News on Monday that his son's siblings live in the U.S., but that Amir and his parents were living in Turmus Ayya, in the central West Bank, where the teenager was attending school.
The Israel Defense Forces...
A Palestinian teenager with U.S. citizenship was killed by Israeli forces in the West Bank town of Turmus Ayya, Palestinian officials said on Sunday, with the Israeli military saying it shot a "terrorist" who endangered civilians by hurling rocks.
The incident is the latest in a surge of violence and near-daily confrontations in the volatile West Bank, where settler violence and clashes between Israeli forces and armed Palestinians have kept it on edge.
An American teen who moved from New Jersey to the West Bank was shot and killed by Israeli troops who said they were targeting “terrorists” throwing rocks at cars.
Amer Mohammad Saada Rabee, a 14-year-old US citizen whose family moved from Saddle Brook when he was in elementary school, was shot along with two other teens in Turmus Ayya in the West Bank on Sunday, the Bergen Record reported.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said troops opened fire on “three terrorists who were throwing rocks at a highway with civilian vehicles.”
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