By Xinhua,
Ramallah : A Palestinian child was shot dead on Tuesday afternoon by Israeli gunfire during a protest against the separation wall that Israel builds in the West Bank, witnesses and medical sources said.
The witnesses said dozens of Palestinians clashed with Israeli soldiers in the village of Na’lin on the west outskirts of the West Bank city Ramallah to protest the confiscation of Palestinianlands for constructing the separation wall.
Medics said Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated metal gunshotsa nd tear gas canisters at the demonstrators, adding that a Palestinian child was killed and 10 others wounded.
Mohamed Sorour, member of Na’lin Committee to resist the wall, told reporters that one Palestinian child was killed, and 10 others injured, three of them in moderate conditions.
Meanwhile, the Arabic service of Israeli Radio quoted Israeli army sources as saying that two Israeli soldiers were slightly injured by stones thrown by Palestinians during the demonstration in the village.
Hundreds of Palestinians organized what they described as a peaceful rally against the confiscation of land at the village to build the wall. Foreign peace activists also joined the protest, Palestinian witnesses said.