Palestinian boy, 3, hit by Israeli military gunfire dies
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three-year-old Palestinian boy has died 4 days after being shot within the head by Israeli troopers.
Mohammed Tamimi was shot within the head final Thursday close to his village of Nebi Saleh whereas using in a automotive along with his father.
He was airlifted to Israel’s Sheba Hospital however died of his wounds on Monday, hospital officers mentioned.
The Israeli navy claimed that troopers had opened hearth after gunmen within the space shot at a close-by Jewish settlement.
But the boy’s father Haitham Tamimi instructed the Associated Press that they’d been driving to go to an uncle when the bullet struck.
Mr Tamimi was additionally shot and handled at a Palestinian hospital.
“I hope this message will be heard: Innocence and childhood are sacred,” he instructed reporters, including that Israel had focused “unarmed people” beneath the “pretext of self-defence”.
“A person in his home and unarmed receives this treatment?” he added.
The Israel Defence Forces (IDF) has opened an investigation into the incident.
“The [Israeli military] regrets harm to non-combatants and is committed to doing everything in its power to prevent such incidents. The incident is under review,” it said.
The capturing follows a surge of violence within the occupied West Bank and east Jerusalem prior to now yr, with almost 120 Palestinians killed in each areas. Nearly half of these killed have been members of armed militant teams, in line with a tally by the Associated Press.
Meanwhile, Palestinian assaults concentrating on Israelis in these areas have killed at the least 21 folks.
Israel captured the West Bank and east Jerusalem, together with the Gaza Strip, within the 1967 struggle.
Around 700,000 Israelis now reside in settlements within the West Bank and east Jerusalem. The worldwide group considers these settlements unlawful or obstacles to peace.