Palestinian child dies in West Bank after Israel blocks emergency medical treatment | Israel-Palestine War News

Israeli forces also shot a 16-year-old boy in the West Bank and killed two Palestinians in Gaza.

A four-month-old Palestinian boy died after Israeli forces blocked access to emergency medical care west of Ramallah, while elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, a 16-year-old boy was killed by Israeli forces.

Laila Ghannam, the governor of Ramallah and el-Bireh, said in a post on Facebook that doctors at the Arab Specialized Hospital confirmed the death of Ahmad Marouf Zeid on Sunday evening after the Israeli army prevented him from going to the hospital for an hour despite his serious medical condition.

Ghannam said Israeli soldiers fired tear gas to stop Palestinians trying to pass through the entrance to the village of Deir Ammar.

He added that what happened to Ahmad, the only son in the family, was “a disgrace to the public conscience” and part of Israeli policies aimed at preventing Palestinians from traveling and accessing medical care, a violation of fundamental rights.

Israeli forces also shot dead a 16-year-old boy in the Qalandiya refugee camp near Ramallah, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health. Two other boys, both aged 14, were injured in the incident on Sunday.

Violence has occurred he went up to the West Bank since the beginning of Israel’s war in Gaza more than 1,000 days ago. Israeli forces and settlers have killed at least 1,087 Palestinians in the West Bank since October 2023, according to the Palestinian Ministry of Health.

Meanwhile, in Gaza, an Israeli jet targeted a group of Palestinians on Omar al-Mukhtar Street in the heart of Gaza City on Sunday, killing at least two people, health officials said. Several others were injured.

Gaza’s Ministry of Health said the Israeli army was violating a “ceasefire” with Hamas, which it entered in Octoberkilled 1,066 people and injured 3,445 others.

The latest casualties bring the number of people killed in Israel’s war in Gaza since October 2023 to 73,090, with another 173,550 injured, the ministry added.