IOF troops kill Palestinian child participating in peaceful rally in W. Bank

The Israeli occupation soldiers killed Tuesday a Palestinian child participating in a peaceful rally in the West Bank village of Ni”lin, near Ramallah city, after they shot him in the head, Palestinian local and medical sources confirmed.

The child was identified as Mohammed Husam Zanoun, 8, who attended the demonstration held by his village inhabitants to protest the Israeli seizure of their farms in favor of the apartheid, separation wall which the Israeli occupation government is building in the West Bank with the aim to transform it into geographically divided cantons.

The Hebrew radio alleged that two Israeli occupation soldiers were wounded when the demonstrators hurled stones at them; yet, local observes asserted that the mere shooting of the child in the head by the IOF troops was a clear sign that they intended to kill him.

The villagers in Ni”lin hold regular peaceful demonstrations in participation with foreign supporters from different countries against the construction of the wall which was deemed by the International Court of Justice in 2004 as “illegal”, and must be removed.

Vast agricultural areas in the West Bank were confiscated by the Israeli occupation authorities in favor of the wall since the construction started in 2003.