On Friday morning, 16-year-old Palestinian child Mohammad Khaled Hasan Mabrouk succumbed to critical injuries sustained two days earlier when Israeli occupation forces shot him during their invasion of Al-Ein refugee camp, west of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
Medical sources confirmed that the child succumbed to his wounds at a hospital in Nablus after enduring life-threatening wounds inflicted by live ammunition.
In a related development, Israeli soldiers invaded the town of Odala, south of Nablus, where they ransacked homes and abducted Palestinian citizen Ayed Mahmoud Dar Khalil. Ayed is a former political prisoner who spent twenty years in Israeli captivity.
On Wednesday, Israeli forces killed two Palestinian children, as Ahmad Ali Asaad Salah, 15, and Mohammad Khaled ‘Elian Issa, 15, and wounded two others, on Wednesday night, after invading the town of Al-Khader, south of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank.
On Wednesday night, the soldiers killed a Palestinian child, Ibrahim Imad Ahmad Mahmoud Hamran, 14, and wounded another, on Wednesday night, in the town of Arraba, southwest of Jenin, in the northern occupied West Bank.
Since the beginning of this year, Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers have killed 186 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank: 65 in Jenin, 33 in Nablus, 27 in Tubas, 17 in Tulkarem, 12 in Hebron, 11 in Ramallah, 8 in Bethlehem, 5 in Jerusalem, 4 in Qalqilia, 3 in Salfit and 1 in Jerusalem.