An-Najah News - US Congresswoman Betty McCollum denounced the fatal shooting of a Palestinian child by Israeli forces in the West Bank as a "grotesque state-sponsored killing.”

Israeli soldiers shot Palestinian 13-year-old Ali Abu Aalya in the stomach during a protest near his village of al-Mughayir in Ramallah.

McCollum called, the incoming administration of President-elect Joe Biden to investigate the incident she said "Yesterday’s death of a 15-year-old Palestinian boy in the West Bank by an Israeli soldier who shot the child in the abdomen is a grotesque state-sponsored killing,"

she added "This senseless incident must be condemned as a direct result of Israel’s permanent military occupation of Palestine. 

 The Congresswoman concluded."I urge the incoming Biden Administration to fully investigate and verify to the American people that no US taxpayer-funded military aid to Israel provided material assistance enabling this taking of a child’s life,".