Israeli occupation soldiers killed, yesterday, a Palestinian child and seriously injured another, in Al-Khalil city, in the southern occupied West Bank, local sources said.

The sources said the occupying soldiers shot the child, Mo’men Yassin Jaber, 16, with an expanding bullet in the heart, instantly killing him and causing serious damage to his organs.

The child was shot during protests that took place in the Shuhada Street area, in the center of Al-Khalil city.

The occupying soldiers also shot a Palestinian with live fire in the main artery in his leg before he was rushed to surgery. The wounded Palestinian remains in serious condition at the Intensive Care Unit of a hospital in Al-Khalil.

Hundreds of Palestinians marched in Mo’men’s funeral procession after wrapping his body with the Palestinian flags and headed towards the Shuhada Graveyard in the Sheikh neighborhood in Hebron.