A 13-year-old Palestinian child was killed on Friday after Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened live fire at Palestinian demonstrators in eastern Nablus.

A medical source said that Mohammed Da’das 13 arrived in hospital with a bullet in the abdomen and medical crews tried to resuscitate him but all their efforts went in vain.

Meanwhile Ahmed Jibril the director of ambulance services in Nablus said that 71 citizens were injured in the IOF shooting in Beit Dajan and Beita in eastern Nablus.

The PIC reporter at the scene said that one of the citizens was hit with a metal bullet in his eye during the confrontations.

RAMALLAH (PIC)– A 13-year-old Palestinian child was killed at the hands of Israeli occupation forces (IOF) at the northern entrance of el-Bireh on Sunday evening.

Palestinian health ministry sources said that Ahmed Sharaka 13 was hit with a rubber-coated bullet in his head and arrived in Ramallah’s Palestine Medical Center in critical condition.

They said that the boy died of brain hemorrhage shortly after arrival in the hospital.

Sharaka from Jalazoun refugee camp to the north of Ramallah was participating in the confrontations against the IOF soldiers in northern el-Bireh when he was hit by an IOF sniper in the head.

A ministry statement said that 81 Palestinians were injured in today’s confrontations with the IOF in Ramallah Nablus and Tulkarem including 53 at Hawara roadblock near Nablus 20 in Tulkarem and 8 in Ramallah.

The number of Palestinian victims of the IOF fatal shooting thus rose to 24 since the beginning of October 13 in occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank and 11 in Gaza Strip while 1300 others were wounded.