Palestinian boy, 12, killed by Israeli forces in West Bank

A funeral procession began on Wednesday evening from Jenin Government Hospital, carrying the body of 12-year-old Mahmoud Abu al-Haija to his hometown of al-Yamoun in the occupied West Bank.

According to the Wafa news agency, Israeli forces shot and killed the boy earlier that day. Witnesses said he was standing with other children in the street when soldiers opened fire, striking him in the thigh and abdomen.