RAMALLAH– A Palestinian child was shot, injured and detained this evening by Israeli occupation forces near the town of Ni’lin, to the west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.

Witnesses told WAFA that Israeli soldiers opened gunfire at 16-year-old Meqdad Abu Srour at a checkpoint at the entrance to the town, before they detained him.

Source: Palestine news and Information Agency