RAMALLAH, Apr 14 (NNN-WAFA) – A Palestinian boy was killed yesterday, by Israeli soldiers, during clashes in a West Bank village, said the health ministry and eyewitnesses.
The boy, 14, was killed by Israeli soldiers in Husan, a village west of the West Bank city of Bethlehem, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a statement, citing a notice by the Palestinian Liaison Office, an organisation established by the Palestinian Authority to coordinate security affairs with Israel.
Eyewitnesses said, heavy clashes broke out between dozens of Palestinians and Israeli soldiers in the village, during which 14-year-old Qusai Hamamreh was critically wounded by the Israeli soldiers’ gunfire, who later prevented medical teams of the Palestinian Red Crescent Society from reaching him.
According to Israeli media outlets, Hamamreh hurled a Molotov cocktail at the Israeli soldiers in the village before being shot.
An Israeli army spokesperson said, the army was looking into the incident.
Earlier in the day, Mohammed Assaf, a 34-year-old Palestinian lawyer, was killed, after Israeli soldiers shot him in the chest, during clashes near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, the health ministry said, in a separate press statement, adding, 31 others were injured, including 11 by live ammunition.
The tension between Israelis and Palestinians has been flaring in the West Bank and East Jerusalem over the past three weeks, before and during Muslims’ fasting month of Ramadan.
On Monday, Palestinian Presidential Spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, warned that, the Israeli escalation measures in the Palestinian territories would push the matters to “an uncontrollable situation.”– NNN-WAFA
