A Palestinian youth was shot dead by Israeli gunfire early on Sunday near the central West Bank city of Ramallah the Palestinian Health Ministry reported.
In a press statement the ministry said that 19-year-old Ahmed al-Rimawi from Ramallah’s northwestern village of Beit Rima was killed during clashes between Palestinian protesters and the Israeli soldiers who stormed the village at the crack of dawn.
The casualty was hit with live ammunition in his chest and breathed his last on the way to the Yasser Arafat Hospital in Salfit.
The victim is the son of the Palestinian ex-prisoner Hazem al-Rimawi who had been locked up for 14 years and a half in Israeli jails and was released three months ago.
Two more youngsters sustained wounds in the clashes and were rushed to Salfit public hospital for urgent treatment.
Since October last year 269 anti-occupation protesters have been killed and hundreds of others injured by the Israeli occupation army across the occupied Palestinian territories.
