The Palestinian Ministry of Health announced today, Friday, the death of the 16-year-old boy, Amjad Nashaat Abu Alia, as a result of being shot by the Israeli occupation in the village of Al-Mughayir, east of Ramallah.

The ministry stated - in a brief statement - that the boy, Abu Alia, arrived at the hospital in a critical condition as a result of being hit by live bullets in the chest, before the doctors announced his death.

And the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA) reported that violent confrontations erupted in the village of Al-Mughayer with the occupation forces and settlers after the suppression of a peaceful march organized by the national and Islamic forces and the Committee to Resist the Wall and Settlement, in rejection of the settlers' attacks on the residents of the village.

The mother of the martyr Amjad Abu Alia during her farewell to her martyred son at Istishari Hospital in Ramallah.

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Local sources told "Wafa" that the occupation soldiers and settlers fired live and rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas canisters at the civilians, which resulted in several injuries among the Palestinians.

The Palestinian presidency condemned the crime committed by the occupation in the village of Al-Mughayir, which led to the death of the boy Abu Alia.

The official spokesman for the presidency, Nabil Abu Rudeina, said, "This crime comes within the framework of the daily series of killings that our people are exposed to, whether by the occupation army or its settlers who are wreaking havoc and murder under the protection of the Israeli government."

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mother of the martyr Amjad Abu Alia bids farewell to her only son a while ago at the Istishari Hospital in Ramallah.

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For his part, Palestinian Prime Minister Muhammad Shtayyeh said that "the murderous occupiers do not stop committing their crimes against children, youths, women and the elderly, the last of whom was the martyred child Amjad Abu Alia."

It is noteworthy that the settlers are attacking the village of Al-Mughayer continuously - especially the areas of Ain Samiya and Marj al-Dhahab - with the protection of the occupation forces, with the aim of seizing more of its lands.

apartheid wall

Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation army began constructing a concrete wall in the south of the occupied West Bank.

Al-Jazeera correspondent Elias Karam stated that the wall will extend for a distance of 28 kilometers to reach the borders of the Dead Sea in the southeastern side of the West Bank.

Ayalon Street isolates the village lands from the West Bank (Al-Jazeera)

Twenty years ago, on June 23, 2002, the government of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon embarked on building a separation wall in the West Bank near the Green Line, at a total cost of about $3.4 billion.

Israel relied on the construction of the separation wall on reinforced concrete with a height of between 4.5 and 9 meters in areas inhabited by Palestinians, an electronic fence in sparsely populated areas, watchtowers equipped with cameras and sensors, and a dirt road covered with sand to detect the impact.

On July 9, 2004 the International Court of Justice in The Hague ruled that the separation wall was illegal, and demanded that Israel halt construction.

Friday prayer in front of the Red Cross

On the other hand, dozens of Palestinians in Gaza City participated in a Friday prayer held in front of the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in solidarity with the prisoners in Israeli prisons - especially those on hunger strike - at the invitation of the Islamic Jihad movement.

Friday's preacher, Tawfiq Quneita, called on the Palestinian forces to work by all means to free the prisoners.

He also called for broad solidarity with the Palestinian prisoners from all spectrums of the Palestinian people and the Arab and Islamic nations.