Days of Palestine, West Bank –Israeli occupation forces killed on Friday evening a Palestinian boy in the West Bank village of Silwad, near Ramallah.
Witnesses said that Orwa Hamed, 14, was killed after the Israeli occupation forces had fired live bullets at tens of Palestinian protesters in the western side of the village.
According to the witnesses, the Israeli occupation forces held Hamed after he was shot and prevented Palestinian ambulances from taking him to hospital.
After a while, the witnesses said, the Israeli occupation allowed for the ambulance to approach the Palestinian boy to find him already dead.
Israeli army spokesman claimed that the boy shot after he was about to hurl a Molotov cocktail at oncoming traffic on Highway 60 in the West Bank, endangering lives.
But another eyewitness told Days of Palestine that the boy was not involved in the clashes with the Israeli occupation forces and he was walking very close to them.
“He was shot by a sniper from a very close distance,” the eyewitness stressed.
Clashes in Jerusalem
Earlier to the killing of the Palestinian boy, the Israeli occupation forces arrested three Palestinians during a demonstration in Wadi Al-Joz neighbourhood, East Jerusalem.
The Israeli army claimed that they were throwing rocks and fireworks at Israeli police after the conclusion of Friday prayer in Al-Aqsa Mosque.
Palestinian sources reported that the Israeli occupation forces fired tear gas and metal-coated with rubber bullets at the protesters.
More than 30 protesters were wounded by the metal-coated with rubber bullets and hundreds suffered inhalation difficulties and fainted because of the heavy use of tear gas.
Meanwhile, several Palestinians were wounded by the metal-coated with rubber bullets and tens suffered inhalation difficulties during clashes with the Israeli occupation forces erupted in Al-Issawiyyah neighbourhood in Jerusalem.
Local sources in the neighbourhood said that two Palestinian apartments were burnt after they had been hit by Israeli gunfire. No casualties were reported.
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