Palestinian Boy Killed During Clashes with Israeli Forces

Israeli soldiers shot dead on Tuesday evening a 12-year-old Palestinian boy during clashes with dozens of Palestinians at the town of al-Ram in northern Jerusalem, Palestinian health ministry said.

The rest were killed in clashes with Israeli troops. Most of the Palestinians have died while carrying out attacks on Israelis.

Abu Zeid is said to have been involved in an attack in Jerusalem in February that killed an Israeli paramilitary police officer.

He is now imprisoned by Israel. Israel confirms three Palestinians were hit, but Palestinian officials say six Palestinians were wounded – two by live ammunition and four by rubber bullets. Palestinians used improvised weapons and threw Molotov cocktails and at the soldiers who resorted to rubber bullets and live fire.

Israeli forces arrested journalist Dowaik, who works as a correspondent for Quds News Network, from her family’s home on April, 10, 2016.

Prior to Ibrahim Baradiya’s killing, there had been no Palestinian or Israeli fatalities recorded in the context of attacks or clashes for two consecutive weeks – the longest period without deaths since the escalation of violence in October 2015, according to United Nations documentation.

Israel’s widespread practice of detaining Palestinian children, sometimes in the same prison facilities as adults, has been criticized as breaching the International Convention on the Rights of the Child, which Israel ratified in 1991.

Israeli forces also suggested that the boy could have died as a result of a local dispute, Haarets reported.

United Nations figures released in April revealed a four-fold increase from previous year in the rate of Israeli demolitions of Palestinian homes and structures, that have left a record-high 808 Palestinians displaced since the start of 2016.

Tensions have been running high in the West Bank with both Palestinians and Israeli trading accusations of igniting violence. Critics say it amounts to collective punishment.