US Congresswoman Betty McCollum has deplored the fatal shooting of a Palestinian child by Israeli forces in last Friday in the West Bank as a “grotesque state-sponsored killing.”
In press remarks McCollum called on the incoming US administration of President-elect Joe Biden to investigate the incident.
“Yesterday’s death of a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in the West Bank by an Israeli soldier who shot the child in the abdomen is a grotesque state-sponsored killing” the US legislator said.
“This senseless incident must be condemned as a direct result of Israel’s permanent military occupation of Palestine” she added.
“I urge the incoming Biden Administration to fully investigate and verify to the American people that no US taxpayer-funded military aid to Israel provided material assistance enabling this taking of a child’s life” the Congresswoman underscored.
On Friday evening 13-year-old Ali Ayman Abu Aliya succumbed to his wounds after he was shot with a live round in his stomach during a protest staged earlier in the afternoon in northern Ramallah.
The child was rushed in critical condition to a hospital in Ramallah where he died after doctors tried for hours to save him.
The Israeli army on Friday afternoon violently attacked Palestinian citizens in al-Mughayir village as they were marching in protest at Israeli intents to build a new illegal settlement in the area according to Mughayir mayor Amin Abu Aliya.
