A child was killed by Israeli occupation forces’ bullets, Thursday evening, in the town of Maithalun, south of Jenin.

The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that its crews transported the body of a killed child from a public road in Maithalun to the Turkish Hospital in Tubas.

According to local sources, the occupation forces stormed the town of Maithloun, which led to the outbreak of confrontations, which resulted in the death of the child Ali Hassan Ali Rabaya (17 years old). Confrontations also broke out in the neighboring village of Siris, during which two children were injured by live bullets.

With the death of the child Rabaya, the number of killed in the West Bank since the seventh of last October rises to 573 citizens, including 138 children, in addition to about 5,350 wounded.