A 10-year-old Palestinian boy has been killed by Israeli forces in a village south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
The Israeli military says its soldiers opened fire on Thursday in response to "confrontations and rock-hurling" directed at them.
Residents of al-Rihiya say that Muhammad al-Hallaq and his friends had been playing football in a local schoolyard when they saw Israeli military vehicles and began to run.
"It's normal, they were afraid and ran back towards the village," the parent of another boy who was a witness told the BBC. "There was no threat, no provocation. Nothing."
The parent says that a soldier "opened fire erratically" from the back of a car. Muhammad was shot in the pelvis and rushed by car to a nearby hospital where he was pronounced dead.
