Palestinian toddler hit by Israeli army gunfire dies

A three-year-old Palestinian lad has died 4 days aft being changeable successful the caput by Israeli forces.

Mohammed Tamimi and his begetter were changeable portion leaving their location successful Nabi Saleh, successful the occupied West Bank.

The Israel subject said its soldiers opened occurrence portion successful pursuit of 2 gunmen who had earlier changeable astatine a adjacent Jewish settlement.

In a connection aft the incident, the subject added that it regretted harm to "non-combatants".

Palestinian activistic and writer Bilal Tamimi - who was besides injured - said that the Israeli service was waiting to ambush a car astatine the entranceway to Nabi Saleh and opened occurrence arsenic it approached.

The toddler was taken by an Israeli subject chopper to Safra Children's Hospital successful Israel to beryllium treated for caput injuries, but did not recover.

His father, Haitham, has present been discharged from a Palestinian hospital. It is understood helium was capable to sojourn his lad successful Israel earlier helium died.

The Israeli military, which has a station conscionable extracurricular Nabi Saleh, antecedently released grainy video which seemingly shows 2 figures shooting guns. It said the shooting towards the colony of Halamish - besides known arsenic Neveh Tzuf - lasted "several minutes".

It said that its soldiers responded with unrecorded fire, causing 2 Palestinians to beryllium injured.

"The [Israeli military] regrets harm to non-combatants and is committed to doing everything successful its powerfulness to forestall specified incidents. The incidental is nether review," it stated.

The colony of Halamish was acceptable up successful the 1970s and has agelong been a root of friction with Palestinian villagers surviving adjacent by.

For respective years, Friday demonstrations took spot successful Nabi Saleh, with section activists protesting against the confiscation of the village's lands and the takeover of its spring.

These would often pb to convulsive confrontations with Israeli soldiers utilizing teardrop state and rubber bullets to artifact their path.

Since the commencement of the year, immoderate 150 Palestinians person been killed by Israeli forces oregon settlers successful the occupied West Bank, East Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip. The figures see militants arsenic good arsenic civilians.

In addition, 23 radical connected the Israeli broadside person been killed - including 2 foreigners and a Palestinian idiosyncratic - successful unit related to the Israel-Palestinian conflict. One of those killed was a subordinate of the Israeli information forces.

On some sides, determination are children among the dead. Mohammed Tamimi was the youngest Palestinian to person been killed successful the West Bank.

Some 700,000 settlers presently unrecorded successful the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Settlements are considered amerciable nether planetary instrumentality though Israel disputes that.