Relatives of Palestinian teenager Ali Abu Alia mourn during his funeral in al-Mughayyir village, northeast of the West Bank city of Ramallah, Dec. 5, 2020. The 13-year-old boy Ali Abu Alia on Friday died of his wounds sustained in clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian demonstrators in the West Bank, medical sources said. (Photo by Ayman Nobani/Xinhua)
RAMALLAH, Dec. 4 (Xinhua) -- A 13-year-old boy on Friday died of his wounds sustained in clashes between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian demonstrators in the West Bank, medical sources said.
Ali Abu Alia was critically wounded in the abdomen by an Israeli soldier's gunfire and died several hours later in a hospital in Ramallah, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said in a press statement.
Earlier on Friday, Palestinian eyewitnesses said that the clashes broke out between dozens of Palestinian young men and Israeli soldiers in al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah in the West Bank.
They said that the soldiers fired live ammunition, rubber bullets, and teargas canisters to disperse the demonstrators.
Meanwhile, Palestinian paramedics said that they treated dozens of demonstrators who suffered suffocation after inhaling the Israeli tear gas.
Mayor of al-Mughayyir Amin Abu Alia told reporters that four more demonstrators were injured by Israeli rubber gunshots during the clashes.
