Israeli troops kill boy in West Bank barrier demo: medics

0 Comments | AFP, July, 2008

RAMALLAH, West Bank (AFP) — Israeli troops on Tuesday shot dead a 12-year-old Palestinian boy during a protest against Israel's separation barrier in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian medical sources said.

Hammad Hossam Mussa 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.

"Protestors arrived at...