Alwaght- Israeli regime's snipers has shot dead on Friday a Palestinian teen boy who was unarmed and far from a border fence in Gaza strip, a witness who filmed the act told RT.
Tel Aviv regime' forces have killed four Palestinians, including the 15-year-old Mohammed Ayoub, and injured 157 Palestinians on Friday during the peaceful March of Return Protests in besieged Gaza.
Thousands of Palestinians moved to the border areas in Gaza in order to hold the March of Return for the fourth consecutive. Israeli regime forces provoked and attacked the peaceful Palestinian protestors demanding the right to return to their ancestral territories occupied by Zionists.
Protests along the Gaza border since March 30 have led to clashes with Israeli forces in which at least 43 Palestinians have lost their lives and thousands others sustained injuries.
The moment Ayoub was hit "with an explosive bullet in the head" was captured by a local cameraman, Abdul Hakim Abu Riyash, who told RT the teenager was nowhere near the frontline and rather "far away from the Israeli fence – about 200-300 meters."
"He was not a threat to the Israeli army and he was not making any movement that can be considered as a threat," the cameraman said, emphasizing that the 15-year-old "was participating in the march like everyone else."
"He wasn't carrying any sort of weapon – not a stone, neither a slingshot, which my video proves," Riyash said.
Mohammed's grieving parents recall warning him that "the Israelis are threatening and targeting people," but despite their attempt to forbid their son from taking part in the protests on Friday, he disobeyed them.
"He asked to go play outside, when he left he told his aunt that he is going to the demonstration for one hour only, and as soon as he got there they targeted and executed him… it happened in less than an hour," the boy's mother said.
The father of the killed teenager added that Mohammed was an "innocent child," who only wanted to "to take a look at his taken lands and to know that he got rights." The Israeli soldier who took his son's life must be a person "with no conscience," the bereft father told RT. "But not him alone, him and his state and president, those people are unethical."
While Mohammed's death caused international outcry, he was not the first Palestinian teenager to be killed by Israeli security forces, the man said. "Did they prosecute the soldiers who killed those children?"he wondered.
"I demand the UN and all countries to stand with us and punish the despicable [Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and the terrorist, shameless soldier," the father added.
After the footage of Mohammed's killing emerged online, the EU condemned the Israeli actions and demanded a "full investigation" of the incident. "As we once again mourn the loss of lives, the EU calls on the Israel Defense Forces to refrain from using lethal force against unarmed protesters. As stated repeatedly, the priority now must be to avoid any further escalation of violence and loss of life," the bloc's statement said.
The chorus of outraged voices was joined by UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East Peace Process Nickolay Mladenov, who urged a thorough investigation and wondered on Twitter: "How does the killing of a child in Gaza today help peace? It doesn't! It fuels anger and breeds more killing."
Palestinian Great March of Return will last until May 15, which coincides with the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day (Day of Catastrophe) on which Israel was created. Every year on May 15, Palestinians all over the world hold demonstrations to commemorate Nakba Day, which marks the anniversary of the forcible eviction of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians from their homeland by Israelis in 1948.
More than 760,000 Palestinians - now estimated to number nearly five million with their descendants - were driven out of their homes on May 14, 1948.
Since 1948, the Israeli regime has denied Palestinian refugees the right to return, despite UN resolutions and international law that upholds people’s right to return to their homelands.
