Ni’lin, West Bank: A 10-year-old was killed by Israeli forces on Tuesday evening during a demonstration in the village of Ni’lin, west of Ramallah.

Eyewitnesses reported that the child, Ahmad Husam Yousef Musa, was shot in the head and died immediately. His body was transferred to Ramallah hospital.

The shooting occurred as bulldozers were finishing their daily work on a separation wall being built to protect an Israeli settlement. According to news reports, Israeli troops fired live ammunition directly at demonstrators who had gathered at the construction site.

Israeli forces have cracked down on Ni’lin ever since residents there began protesting what they call the “apartheid wall” – a barrier of razor-wire fences and concrete barricades that cuts into their land and has been deemed illegal by the World Court.

Advocacy Project (AP) Peace Fellow Willow Heske is volunteering with the Democracy and Workers’ Rights Center (DWRC) in Ramallah this summer. Her tasks include following the negative effects of the separation barrier on workers from Ni’lin. The DWRC, an AP partner, advocates for the rights of Palestinian workers and promotes principles of democracy and social justice in the Occupied Territories.

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