Jewish soldiers shot a 10-year-old boy, Hammad Hossam Mussa, during a
protest against Israel's separation barrier in the occupied West Bank.
It was a clean head shot. He was hit in the head by a live bullet
fired by Israeli soldiers during a demonstration in the village of Nilin,
said Salah Al Khawaja, a member of Nilin's Committee Against the Wall.
Mussa died of his wounds while being transported to hospital in an
ambulance shortly afterwards, the medical sources told AFP.
According to Khawaja, soldiers fired live rounds towards a group of
protestors who had ran into Nilin after the army dispersed demonstrators
outside the flashpoint village using rubber-coated bullets.
Fifteen people were lightly injured by rubber-coated bullets during
Tuesday's demonstration in Nilin, which has in recent months become a
site of regular violent demonstrations against the controversial
separation barrier.
A military spokeswoman in Tel Aviv told AFP that the army was carrying
out a "serious inquiry" into the incident with "concerned officials on
the Palestinian side."
