Palestin shoot by Israel but life

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian teen in the back of the head with a rubber-coated steel bullet while he was walking to school in the Silwan neighborhood of occupied East Jerusalem on Saturday morning, his family told Ma’an.

Yasin Abu Mayyala said his son Hatim, 13, was taken from the Ras al-Amoud area in Silwan, where he was shot, to Hadassah Hospital in the West Jerusalem neighborhood of Ein Kerem, where medics said he suffered from a deep wound that needed recquired stitches.

The boy was suffering from nausea and vomiting, Abu Mayyala said.

Abu Mayyala told Ma’an that Hatim left home with his brother Ahmed and as they stepped out of the bus, each went in a different direction as a result of clashes in the area between Palestinians and Israeli forces.

“While Hatim was looking for Ahmed, Israeli forces fired a rubber-coated bullet at his head causing severe bleeding and a deep wound,” he added.

Hatim told his father that despite his wounds, he was attacked and beaten violently by six Israeli officers before they detained him. An ambulance later arrived and evacuated him.

Abu Mayyala said that his son’s school notified him that Hatim was detained.

When he arrived he saw an ambulance, and Israeli forces told him his son had been hit.

Israeli forces reportedly decided to halt the detention process on the condition that his family bring Hatim to an Israeli interrogation center for questioning after he leaves the hospital, according to his father.