Palestinian Child Art Center slams Israeli troops killing of a Palestinian child

Wednesday July 04, 2007 23:11 by IMEMC Staff

The Palestinian Child Arts Center slammed that Israeli military crime of shooting and killing a Palestinian child in Hebron City, in the southern part of the West Bank.

Child Art Center

The child was identified as Ahmad Abdul-Mohsin Skafy, 15, he was carrying a toy gun when the soldiers fired several rounds of live ammunition at him causing instant death. He was killed on Tuesday July 4.

The Center demanded international groups specialized in Human Rights and the rights of the children to denounce thus crime and all crimes carried by the army against the Palestinian children.

Sameeh Abu Zakia, head of the Palestinian Child Arts Center  considered that killing of the child as a direct violation to all human rights regulation and international treaties regarding protecting the children.

Abu Zakia added that real peace starts with the peace of children, and demanded human rights groups to denounce the killing of children anywhere, anytime.

On Monday, November 20, 2006, soldiers shot and killed the 17-year-old Rakan al-Nusairat near Jericho checkpoint. The child was carrying a plastic gun.

Another similar incident took place on January 2006 when two thirteen-year old children carrying toys guns were killed by the army, and another child was killed in 2005 in similar circumstances.

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