On Sunday morning, the death of the injured Palestinian child, Mohammad Musa Al-Bitar, 17, was announced, after Israeli forces shot and abducted him in the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, southwest of Jericho in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank.
According to Hussein Hamial, the Governor of Jericho and the Jordan Valley, said that the child, Mohammad Musa Al-Bitar, 17, succumbed to gunshot wounds inflicted on him by Israeli forces on Saturday.
Israeli forces shot and abducted, on Saturday, two Palestinian children in the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, killing the child, Ahmad Ashraf Walid Hamidat, 16, and critically injuring Al-Bitar.
Media sources said that occupation forces had transferred the injured Al-Bitar to a hospital in occupied Jerusalem, where he was pronounced dead from his critical injury.
Salah Al-Samhouri, the coordinator of the National Forces in Jericho, a comprehensive strike including the closure of shops would be held in the camp, on Sunday, to mourn the two murdered children.
On Sunday afternoon, the funeral procession for the slain Mohammad Musa Al-Bitar began in front of the Jericho Governmental Hospital and continued to his family’s home in the camp.
Loved ones said their final goodbyes before mourners carried the body on their shoulders through the streets of the camp, performed the funeral prayer, and buried the child in the camp’s cemetery.
On Saturday night, Palestinians gathered in front of the Jericho Governmental Hospital to receive the body of the slain child, Ahmad Ashraf Walid Hamidat, 16, who was shot and killed by Israeli forces.
The funeral procession continued to the family home where loved ones paid their respects, before mourners carried the body through the streets and laid him to rest in the Martyrs’ Cemetery.
It is important to mention that, according to Eid Barahma, the director of the Palestinian Prisoners’ Society (PPS) in Jericho, the slain Hamidat is the brother of the 8-year-old child, Joud Ashraf Walid Hamidat, whom soldiers shot in the neck and abducted in the Aqabat Jaber refugee camp, on May 6, 2024.
