Two children were killed by Israeli occupation forces yesterday, Sunday evening, at the northern entrance to the city of Al-Bireh.

The Ministry of Health reported that the child Suleiman Muhammad Suleiman Kanaan (17 years old) arrived dead at the Istishari Arab Hospital as a result of being shot in the heart by live bullets at the northern entrance to Al-Bireh, adding that the General Authority for Civil Affairs informed it of the death of a second child, Khaled Amer Hamidat (16 years old). He was injured by occupation bullets at the northern entrance to Al-Bireh, and the occupation authorities are still holding his body.

With the death of the two children, Kanaan and Hamidat, the number of killed today in the West Bank rises to five Palestinians.