On Tuesday, a Palestinian child succumbed to a critical gunshot wound inflicted on him by the Israeli army earlier this month in the town of Methaloon, south of Jenin in the northern West Bank.
Media sources said that the child, Saif Ziad Ali Amir, 13, a citizen of the Tulkarem governorate, died on Tuesday evening, twelve days after occupation soldiers shot him in the chest with live ammunition.
Due to the severity of his injuries, the slain child was transferred to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, where doctors announced that he had succumbed to his wounds.
On July 11, Israeli soldiers shot and killed the child, Ali Hassan Ali Rabay’a, 15, and injured two children, including the slain child, Amir, in the town of Methaloon, south of Jenin in the northern West Bank.
In related news, Israeli forces invaded the city of Tulkarem and the Tulkarem refugee camp, assassinated 3 Palestinian young men, and two women, and shot at least five young men.
The Israeli army carried out a targeted assassination operation using an armed drone strike to kill five Palestinians in the Tulkarem refugee camp.
The slain citizens were identified as Mohammad Badea’ Mohammad Radwan, 36, Mohammad Ibrahim Mohammad Awad, 31, Ashraf Eid Zaher Nafe’, 20, and the two women, Eman Abdullah Salem, 56, and her daughter, Bayan Mohammad Jom’a Eid, 22.
Also on Tuesday, occupation forces shot and killed the two young men, Jihad Mohammad Hussein Shalalda, 39, in Sair town, and Ramez Mohammad Halayqa, 22, in Shiokh town, northeast of Hebron in the southern occupied West Bank.
Israeli forces have now killed 586 Palestinian civilians, including 141 children, and injured more than 5,350 others, in various regions of the occupied West Bank, since the beginning of the military onslaught against the Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023.
Israeli forces have killed at least 39,090 Palestinians, the majority of whom are woman and children, and injured at least 90,147, since the beginning of the brutal military onslaught against the devastated Gaza Strip on October 7, 2023, while thousands remain buried under the rubble.
