13-year-old Palestinian boy shot dead by Israeli forces in Ramallah

RAMALLAH: A 13-year-old Palestinian boy, Mohammad Khaled Zaid, succumbed to his injuries tonight after being shot by Israeli occupation forces near the Jalazon refugee camp, located north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to medical sources. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that their teams dealt with the boy after he had been severely wounded in the chest by a gunshot in the vicinity of the Jalazon refugee camp. Efforts were made to perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation on the injured boy before he was transported to Ramallah Public Hospital. Local sources reported that the Israeli occupation forces fired at the boy while he was near the Israeli segregation wall adjacent to the Beit El colonial settlement. He was left bleeding for about an hour before the incident was reported by the occupation army, and he was handed over to Palestinian ambulance services. Zaid was taken to Ramallah Public Hospital in critical condition, where doctors later pronounced his death. Source: Pale stine News and Information Agency – WAFA