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16-year-old Palestinian teen waving his hands at Israeli soldiers before being shot to death near Rafah on September 7, 2018. Credit: Screengrab/ Twitter. Published by Haaretz
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GAZA CITY (Ma'an) -- SEPT. 9, 2018 3:02 P.M. (UPDATED: SEPT. 10, 2018 11:47 A.M.)

A video documented the method of how Israeli forces targeted and killed 16-year-old Palestinian, Ahmad Misbah Abu Tyour, while he was participating in "The Great March of Return" protests in the besieged Gaza Strip.

The video showed the Palestinian teen, while maintaining his distance, throwing rocks towards the border with Israel as a form of protest to the nearly 12-year Israeli siege of Gaza.

Ahmad’s rock-throwing posed no threat to the heavily armed Israeli forces.

The video also showed Ahmad raising his hands up, seconds prior to an Israeli sniper shooting him in the chest and causing him critical injuries.

Ahmad succumbed to his wounds on Saturday morning.

The video below is not the first of its kind to document Israel’s intentional killing of Palestinian children, who did not pose any threat to Israel, and yet Israel rarely takes accountability for such shootings.

Israeli authorities announced the decision to open an investigation into the matter.

Watch the video below: [Here]
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16-year-old Gazan Shot to Death by Israeli Soldiers While Waving His Hands; Army to Investigate Incident

Ahmad Masbah Abu Tuyur who was wounded in Friday's protests succumbed to his wounds, bringing the death toll from protest to two ■ Four Gazans who tried to enter Israel Saturday were caught carrying hatchet and knife

by Jack Khoury, Yaniv Kubovich and Almog Ben Zikri for Haaretz
Sep 08, 2018 4:37 PM

A 16-year-old Palestinian, identified as Ahmed Masabah Abu Tuyur, died Saturday morning after he was injured on Friday from live Israeli fire at a demonstration in the area of Rafah, Gaza's health ministry said.

A video published on social media shows Abu Tuyur hurling a rock towards Israeli soldiers from a great distance and waving at them for about ten seconds before he was shot.

Also on Saturday, the Israeli military identified four suspects attempting to cross into Israel from the northern Gaza strip, the Israel Defense Forces said. According to the army, the suspects were carrying a knife and a hatchet.

On Friday, during the weekly "March for Return" protests that Palestinians have held on the Gaza-Israel border since the end of March, 17-year-old Bilal Hafaje was killed by live Israeli fire, while at least another 30 were wounded, the Gaza Health Ministry reported.

Gaza's Health Ministry also said that a 19-year-old Palestinian man died of wounds he had sustained in clashes along the border on July 14. The ministry identified the man as Amjad Hamdona, whose death brings the amount of demonstrators killed along the border to 174.