“He sustained critical injuries to his colon, kidneys, and bladder. He underwent surgery and was in the ICU until succumbing to his wounds today,” the Palestinian Ministry of Health said.

Mahmoud is the fourth child killed by zionist troops in the West Bank this week and the twenty-seventh in 2022, in addition to 7-year-old Rayyan Suliman who died after zionist soldiers gave pursuit to schoolchildren in the village of Taqu’ near Bethlehem on 29 September.

Over one quarter of the 105 Palestinians shot and killed by Zionist occupation forces in the West Bank in this year are children, and 42 hailed from the city of Jenin in the northern occupied West Bank.

Zionist occupation forces forces shot and killed four Palestinian teenagers including three minors in less than 24 hours on Friday and Saturday. (ILKHA)