Palestinian three-year-old shot by Israeli forces dies
Published: 04:06 PM,Jun 05,2023 | EDITED : 08:06 PM,Jun 05,2023
RAMALLAH: A three-year-old Palestinian boy shot by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank last week died of his wounds on Monday, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.
The Israeli Sheba hospital, where he was being treated since he was shot on Thursday, said the child “died... despite extensive efforts of the medical team”.
In a statement, the Palestinian health ministry said it was informed of the “death of the child Mohammed Haitham al-Tamimi, 3, from the village of Nabi Saleh.”
In a statement released soon after the confrontations in the village near Ramallah, the Israeli army said that “assailants fired in the direction of the community of Neveh Tzuf”.
Soldiers stationed nearby “responded by firing a number of bullets”, the statement said.
As a result of the army’s fire two Palestinians were wounded, one of whom was the three-year-old, it said.
Tamimi was taken to Sheba by helicopter for treatment, before being pronounced dead on Monday.
Tamimi’s father, Haitham was also wounded in the incident.
“I was with my child in my car, we wanted to visit family,” Haitham al-Tamimi said. “Suddenly they shot at me and my son, I thought it came from the (military) tower,” he added from his hospital bed.
Meanwhile, an Israeli court sentenced a Palestinian to life in prison for the 2015 killing of an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank, the military said on Monday.
The Israeli military court sentenced Moath Hamed, 39, to two life sentences for the attack, which he admitted to carrying out on behalf of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, the army said.
On June 29, 2015 Hamed fired at a vehicle, killing Malachi Rosenfeld, 25, who was returning from a basketball game near Shilo, an illegal settlement in the West Bank.
Three other Israelis were also injured in the attack.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said Hamed had been arrested by Israeli forces in April 2022 after being “pursued by the occupation (Israel) for seven years”.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since the Six-Day War of 1967.
Cases involving events in the West Bank are tried by Israeli military tribunals.
Nearly three million Palestinians live in the West Bank, as do around 490,000 Israelis in settlements that are considered illegal under international law. — AFP
The Israeli Sheba hospital, where he was being treated since he was shot on Thursday, said the child “died... despite extensive efforts of the medical team”.
In a statement, the Palestinian health ministry said it was informed of the “death of the child Mohammed Haitham al-Tamimi, 3, from the village of Nabi Saleh.”
In a statement released soon after the confrontations in the village near Ramallah, the Israeli army said that “assailants fired in the direction of the community of Neveh Tzuf”.
Soldiers stationed nearby “responded by firing a number of bullets”, the statement said.
As a result of the army’s fire two Palestinians were wounded, one of whom was the three-year-old, it said.
Tamimi was taken to Sheba by helicopter for treatment, before being pronounced dead on Monday.
Tamimi’s father, Haitham was also wounded in the incident.
“I was with my child in my car, we wanted to visit family,” Haitham al-Tamimi said. “Suddenly they shot at me and my son, I thought it came from the (military) tower,” he added from his hospital bed.
Meanwhile, an Israeli court sentenced a Palestinian to life in prison for the 2015 killing of an Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank, the military said on Monday.
The Israeli military court sentenced Moath Hamed, 39, to two life sentences for the attack, which he admitted to carrying out on behalf of the Palestinian Islamist movement Hamas, the army said.
On June 29, 2015 Hamed fired at a vehicle, killing Malachi Rosenfeld, 25, who was returning from a basketball game near Shilo, an illegal settlement in the West Bank.
Three other Israelis were also injured in the attack.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club said Hamed had been arrested by Israeli forces in April 2022 after being “pursued by the occupation (Israel) for seven years”.
Israel has occupied the West Bank since the Six-Day War of 1967.
Cases involving events in the West Bank are tried by Israeli military tribunals.
Nearly three million Palestinians live in the West Bank, as do around 490,000 Israelis in settlements that are considered illegal under international law. — AFP