A Palestinian minor succumbed on Friday evening to serious wounds he sustained from Israeli gunfire in Silwan neighborhood, south of the occupied city of Jerusalem.
The Palestinian Health Ministry confirmed that 16-year-old Wadee’ Abu Rumouz was seriously shot in the chest by an Israeli soldier during confrontations in Silwan on Wednesday.
The boy succumbed on Friday evening to his serious wounds.
According to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS), Israeli forces arrested Wadee’ and took him to a hospital where he was chained to his bed and kept under heavy security despite his critical injury.
His family was prevented from seeing him while in the hospital and Israeli forces beat them when they tried to see their son.
Wadee’s body remains in Israeli custody.
More than 231 Palestinians were killed by ‘Israel’ in 2022, with the vast majority (173) killed in the West Bank. This year seems to usher in a similar trend as Israeli forces and settlers have already killed 32 Palestinians.
