Israeli soldiers accused of shooting Palestinian boy in West Bank

Israeli soldiers in the West Bank have been accused by witnesses of shooting a 15 year-old Palestinian boy, who died of his injury on Saturday, reports Reuters.

The boy's father said his son, Wajih Wajdi Al-Ramahy, had just left a grocery store when he was shot by gunfire coming from an Israeli settlement 300m away.

"I will send the body of my son for autopsy to prove he was killed by Israeli army gunfire and I will sue them," he said.

Two friends of the boy, who insisted on anonymity, said,
 "Soldiers who appeared from an area at the fence fired at Wajih and killed him."
Last month, a Palestinian man was shot dead by an Israeli police officer in a town near Tel Aviv.

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