It is two years since I was last here, deep in the West Bank, and today it is a different place. Beyond the Israeli checkpoints guarding ever expanding Jewish settlements illegal in international law, is a Palestinian population more squeezed than ever before shot shuttered, streets deserted, and communities cut off.

We're going to go up to this one here and come across.

We're trying to reach the town of Tilkaram, and it's hard going. Every road we try is blocked.

How are you doing? Good.

Yeah.

The Israelis put this here.

The Israelis closed it. He says, we have businesses everywhere here. We can't work.

When did they close it.

Then?

A quick retreat.

The army's here now. The IDFs just turned up now. Let's see what they say.

The Israeli crackdown here in the West Bank intensified after the Hamas attacks from Gaza.

Shalom. Shalom.

How are you?

I'm fine.

How are you?

Yeah, I'm okay.

We're from Sky News. Why is this closed off?

Because they see all the fire they set here. A fire? And we don't want they will do a mess.

Yeah, but you've shut off their village. They have other roads.

Okay.

On the barricade, the graffiti says Hamas.

Well, we've been trying to get to.

The town for about an hour now, and every road we come to looks like this. Either barricaded by the Israeli military, or it has a full Israeli checkpoint on it. You know, Palestinians so often talk about feeling suffocated, and right now it does.

Feel like that, more than ever. It took a while, but we reached Tulkaram eventually. We'd come to meet the Mohammed family. Ibrahim and Nahida lost their son two weeks ago. The family watched from their balcony as 15 year old Taha was shot dead below them.

He'd heard Israeli troops were in town, and he'd gone out with a friend, phone in hand. His family said to have a look. We're not showing the moment he died, but he appeared to present no threat. The screams are from Sarah Taha'sister. She'd just filmed her brother being killed.

He is in the paradise right now. He had three shots, his leg and the last one under eyes. His eyes? Yeah.

Moments after she filmed her father.

He'D.

Gone out to help his son. He, too was shot. Ibrahim is out of hospital now, his physical wounds healing.

I saw my son laying on the floor with no value, like an animal. I said, I am a father. The boy has been killed. I ask for mercy. Then I heard bullets around me, and they hit my back. And my daughter said, Come back, dad.

Taha is one of at least 52 children to be killed in the West Bank since the Hamas attacks in southern Israel on October 7. That is more than in any other.

Month in 56 years.

If this was your son and what they did to Taha, they did to your son, would you accept to live with them. They're killing children. All the children were killed were like Taha. They went to buy things in the shops and rockets fell on them. And children aged 1011 14 and Taha was 15. Most of them are under 20.

We've asked the Israeli military twice to explain what happened that night in Tulkaram.

They have not responded. The Palestinian ambulance was allowed access at 444. According to the time on the video, taha had been left for an hour and 14 minutes. All this in the name of Israeli security.

You have to wonder what impact that.

Has on the people here on the.

Next generation of Palestinians.

Do you think that it's possible for Palestinians and Israelis to live alongside each other?

No. It's our land. Just for us.

All of it?

Yeah. Just for us.

The West Bank or all.

Our land.

Not possible to share?

No.

Mark Stone, Sky News, in the West Bank.