ZOF shot 8-year-old boy in head

Zionist forces shot an eight-year-old Palestinian boy in the head with a rubber-coated bullet in the West Bank village of Nil’in on Friday afternoon, local activists said.

The boy, who was not identified, was taken to a Ramallah hospital for treatment, according to the Popular Committee Against the Wall, which said he was sent home with six stitches.

The committee said in a statement that soldiers beat and arrested two teenagers, identified only as residents of Shuqba, a neighboring village, aged 15 and 17, and that Red Crescent volunteers “tried to come to their rescue. Soldiers then assaulted one medical volunteer – Juma’a Khawaja, he was beaten with a gun.”