Published: 23 July 2019
Last updated: 4 March 2024
B'Tselem: IDF troops shot Palestinian child in the head with live fire (Jerusalem Post)
A nine-year-old Palestinian boy was shot in the head with live fire by an IDF soldier last week outside the West Bank village of Kafr Kaddum, according to B’Tselem – The Israel Information Centre for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories, contradicting statements made by the IDF.
Residents of Kafr Kaddum clashed with IDF troops as they were holding demonstrations on July 12, protesting against the closure of the main access road. According to B’Tselem, protesters clashed around 200 meters from Abd a-Rahman a-Shteiwi, a boy who was “sitting at the entrance of one of the homes on the edge of the village, playing with a piece of wood.”
The protest dispersed. then an Israeli sniper shot a 9-year-old Palestinian boy in the head (Haaretz)
GIDEON LEVY: From 100 metres away, an IDF soldier shot a boy in the head in the West Bank village of Kafr Qaddum. The bullet exploded into dozens of fragments in the child's brain and he's now in an induced coma
Photo: Abd el-Rahman Shatawi
