A 3-year-old Palestinian boy died on Monday, the Palestinian Health Ministry said, days after he was shot by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank. Muhammad Haitham al-Tamimi died despite efforts to save him, including transporting him by helicopter to a hospital in Israel. He was shot on Thursday night near the Israeli settlement of Neveh Tzuf, north of Jerusalem.
The child’s father, Haitham Tamimi, said he was going to visit his brother when he and Muhammad were shot.
“As soon as I started the car, I heard gunshots and saw Israeli soldiers coming out of the military tower,” Tamimi told CNN .
“I looked at Muhammad and I couldn’t believe my eyes. He was shot in the head and there was blood all over his body. I took him in my arms and then I realized that I was also shot in the right shoulder. The villagers came quickly and took us away in their cars. That’s when Israeli ambulances and a helicopter arrived and took Muhammad to the Israeli hospital.”
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said its troops were firing back at gunmen who were shooting at Neveh Tzuf when they hit two Palestinians, a 3-year-old child and a man.
Emergency medical teams from the IDF and Magen David Adom (MDA) treated both victims and managed to get the child’s heart beating again, the MDA said at the time.
The child was then transported, ventilated and in unstable conditions, by an IDF helicopter to the Sheba-Tel Hashomer hospital in Israel.
“The IDF regrets the harm to non-combatants and is committed to doing everything in its power to prevent such incidents. The incident is under review,” the IDF said on Friday. The military did not immediately have a new statement in light of the child’s death, pointing to the CNN for Friday’s statement.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on Monday condemned Tamimi’s murder as “a heinous crime against humanity” and called for “an urgent international investigation into this crime and other crimes of murder of Palestinian children”.
The child’s father was treated for his gunshot wound at a hospital in Ramallah and was released on Sunday. The gunshot wound, he said, wasn’t hurting: “I don’t feel physical pain. the pain in my heart is very great.”
Source: CNN Brasil
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