2.5-year-old Palestinian child succumbs to wounds from Israeli gunfire
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Days after he was shot by the occupation forces while he was in his father's car outside their house in the village of Nabi Saleh, Mohammad Haytham Tamimi succumbs to his critical wounds.
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2-year-old Palestinian child Mohammad Haytham Tamimi
The 2.5-year-old Mohammad Haytham Tamimi died of the wounds he sustained when Israeli occupation forces opened fire in the town of Nabi Saleh, northwest of Ramallah, last Thursday evening, as per the Palestinian Ministry of Health.
Activist Bilal Tamimi revealed that the child’s family was informed of his martyrdom of a gunshot wound to the head.
The Palestinian child Mohammed Tamimi (2) has died of his wounds sustained by the Israeli occupation forces in Nabi Saleh village, northwest Ramallah.#IsraeliTerrorism #IsraeliCrimes pic.twitter.com/VPvndVFLdZ
— EYE ON PALESTINE (@Palestinell) June 5, 2023
The family explained that the body of the martyred child will be handed over this evening at the Rantis checkpoint, west of Ramallah, to be transferred to the Palestine Medical Complex.
His burial ceremony is set for tomorrow in the town’s cemetery.
Palestinians bid farewell to the child Mohammed Tamimi (2) who has died today after Israeli forces shot him in the head with live ammunition with his father on June 1 in Nabi Saleh, northwest of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.#IsraeliTerrorism #Palestine pic.twitter.com/NsvIzmfiOS
— EYE ON PALESTINE (@Palestinell) June 5, 2023
With the martyrdom of 2.5-year-old Tamimi, the number of Palestinian children killed at the hands of Israeli occupation forces since the beginning of this year has risen to 28.
The child Tamimi was shot in the head when Israeli occupation forces opened fire indiscriminately while pursuing Palestinian youths who allegedly carried out a shooting operation targeting an occupation military post near the town of Nabi Saleh, Palestinian sources revealed. Both baby Tamim and his father Haytham were wounded in the Israeli attack.
2-year-old Palestinian toddler Mohammed Tamimi is still in critical condition after being shot in the head by the Israeli occupation forces in the village of Nabi Saleh, northeast of Ramallah, on Thursday night. He was travelling in a car with his father, who was also wounded. pic.twitter.com/pHL5ZLJbMU
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) June 4, 2023
Last Thursday, activist Bilal Tamimi stated that an Israeli occupation army force ambushed a vehicle at the entrance to the town, chased it, and opened fire on it, which led to the injury of the child with a bullet in the head, while his father was wounded in the hand.
الحمد لله على السلامة
— Jehad Barakat (@barakat_media) June 2, 2023
فيديو للحظة إصابة بلال التميمي المصور الناشط في توثيق انتهاكات الاحتلال، برصاص الاحتلال المطاطي بيدع، خلال توثيقه اقتحام قريته النبي صالح.
كان التميمي قبل ذلك بدقائق يعرف عن نفسه لجنود الاحتلال بقوله "صحافة" باللغة العبرية، وكان يرتدي اللباس الخاص الواضح pic.twitter.com/8SkSIAjG9J
Tamimi added, in statements to the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), that the child and his father were shot while in the car parked in their house 300 m away from the checkpoint.
Tamimi’s mother explained that Mohammad and his father were on their way for a family visit when they were shot.
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