RAMALLAH, Jun 26 (NNN-WAFA) – A 16-year-old Palestinian boy succumbed to his severe wounds yesterday, after Israeli soldiers shot him, in a village east of Ramallah, in the West Bank, medics said.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement, Mohammed Hamed died of severe wounds, after he was shot multiple times, in the village of Silwad on Friday.
Clashes erupted on Friday evening between Israeli armed forces that stormed the village and dozens of Palestinian young men, Palestinian eyewitnesses said.
The Israeli soldiers arrested Hamed, after he was shot and wounded, and then transferred him to an Israeli hospital for “medical treatment.” However, the boy was later pronounced dead, due to his severe wounds, according to eyewitnesses.
Hamed’s body was handed over yesterday afternoon, through one of the security barriers, the Israeli authorities informed the Palestinian liaison office.
Palestinian President, Mahmoud Abbas’s Fatah Party, said in a statement that, it condemned the boy’s killing and declared a general strike today, to protest the killing of the teenager.
The Palestinian Foreign Ministry called the death of Hamed “the crime of field execution,” committed by Israeli soldiers.
The Israeli army said that, some Palestinians had thrown stones at civilians, driving on a major road, near the city of Ramallah, and had refused to obey instructions to stop. Israeli soldiers then stopped the suspects by using live bullets on them, media quoted the Israeli army as saying.
On Friday, around 130 Palestinian protesters were injured, during clashes with the Israeli soldiers, in several West Bank towns and villages, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.
Among the injured, three were shot by live ammunition, nine by rubber bullets, and others suffered from inhaling teargas, according to the organisation.
Fierce clashes broke out near the villages of Beita and Beit Dajan, south and east of Nablus city, respectively, and near the village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qaqilya city, according to Palestinian eyewitnesses.– NNN-WAFA
