Palestinian teen first to be killed by Israel in 2018

Israeli forces relish shot dead a Palestinian teen on the northern outskirts of the occupied West Bank town of Ramallah, basically based completely on Palestinian officials.

The Palestinian smartly being ministry identified the 17-365 days-outmoded boy as Musab Firas al-Tamimi from the village of Deir Nitham, the assign Wednesday’s taking pictures took assign. 

« He died quickly after the occupation forces fired a bullet into his neck, » Maria Aqraa, a spokesman for the ministry, told Al Jazeera.

« He was transferred to a smartly being facility in Ramallah and he handed away minutes later, » she added.

Aqraa talked about Musab was shot for the length of a difference with the Israeli military. 

Per the Times of Israel files net assign of abode, the Israeli military talked about Musab had « gave the impression to be preserving a gun », nonetheless that it was « now not straight confirmed that al-Tamimi had been armed on the time of the taking pictures ». 

An military spokesperson reportedly told the catch assign of abode that the circumstances of Musab’s killing were being investigated.

‘The arena is purely silently looking at’ 

Musab was a member of the Tamimi family who’re residing within the adjacent village of Nabi Saleh, the assign a prominent teen activist was arrested on December 19.

Ahed Tamimi was filmed slapping a soldier who was standing outside her home, after Israeli forces had shot her 15-365 days-outmoded cousin within the face with a rubber bullet. 

The family has been persecuted for years by the Israeli military which has detained and killed several of them for the length of weekly unarmed village protests against the theft of their lands for the shut by illegal Jewish-handiest settlement, Halamish. 

Musab’s father, Firas, talked about the Israeli military has been provoking the residents of both villages for months now.

He told Al Jazeera that Israeli troopers raided Deir Nitham at about 8am local time (6:00 GMT) on Wednesday after which boys from the village went out to confront them.  

Father of Musab mourns his son’s loss of life on the Istishari smartly being facility in Ramallah [Anadolu/Issam Rimawi]

« The occupation military has been raiding both Deir Nitham and Nabi Saleh day in and day out. They attain in, irritate the residents, raid our properties at night and throw sound bombs within the avenue. This has been our fact on each day basis, » talked about Firas. 

« We cannot just help slightly and help looking at. No one is paying attention to us – no one feels the anguish that we’re going thru. The arena is purely silently looking at. » 

Since December 6, when US President Donald Trump declared Jerusalem because the capital of Israel, sixteen Palestinians were killed by the Israeli military largely for the length of protests against Washington’s decision.

Musab’s killing, which is unrelated to the protests against Trump’s switch, makes him the first Palestinian to be shot dead by Israeli forces in 2018.