The 16 -year -old adolescent had been touched in the head during clashes with Tsahal in Nablus, in occupied West Bank.
MO12345LEMONDE With AFP
Montaser Mohammad Theeb Shawa, a 16 -year -old Palestinian, died on Monday February 20 to his injuries a little less than two weeks after was touched in the head by an Israeli shot in the Balata camp, near Naplouse, in Occupied West Bank, said the Palestinian Ministry of Health in a press release.
The Israeli army said in a statement that on the evening of February 8 “armed men” had shot soldiers who secured the entry of Jewish faithful on the site of the tomb of Joseph, in the Nablus region. The soldiers responded with “real shots”, injuring a person, specifies the press release.
Since the beginning of the year, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has cost the life of forty-nine Palestinians (including members of armed groups and civilians, including minors), at nine Israeli civilians (including three minors ) and to a Ukrainian, according to a statement by AFP made from official Israeli and Palestinian sources.