Israeli forces shoot 16-year old through the heart
Mourners carry the body of Abdullah Ghaith out of his family's home during his funeral in the West Bank city of Hebron
ISRAELI forces shot a 16-year-old Palestinian boy dead with a bullet through his heart as he made his to pray at the al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem at the end of Ramadan today.
Abdullah Ghaith was shot as police claimed he was trying to climb an illegally erected border fence to get from Bethlehem into Jerusalem.
The boy’s father, Louai Ghaith, said: “He was going to fulfil his religious duty, he was going to worship. They killed him … with a bullet to his heart, like a game. For 16 years I’ve been raising him.”
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