Palestinian Boy Loses Leg after Israeli Soldier Shoots Him


June 26, 2019
JFJFP
Mahmoud Salah, 14, lost his leg after an Israeli soldier shot him as he retrieved a football near the Separation Wall

Mahmoud Salah

The Palestine Chronicle reports

A 14-year-old Palestinian boy was forced to undergo a leg amputation after an Israeli soldier shot him as he retrieved a football near the Separation Wall in the occupied West Bank.

According to Defence for Children International (DCIP), 14-year-old Mahmoud Salah from Al-Khader village was playing football with friends on the evening of 21 May, when he went to fetch the ball.

An Israeli soldier then shot him in the leg with live ammunition, after which, the boy testified, “two soldiers approached and kicked him”.

Collected by an ambulance some 45 minutes after being shot, Mahmoud lost consciousness en route to the hospital.

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