RAMALLAH, Wet Bank - A two-and-a-half-year-old Palestinian boy shot in the head by Israeli troops has died in hospital The boy, Muhammad Haitham al-Tamimi passed away on Monday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health, confirmed.

A 3-year-old Palestinian boy died Monday, the Palestinian Ministry of Health said, days after he was shot by Israeli troops in the occupied West Bank.

A three-year-old Palestinian boy has died four days after being shot in the head by Israeli forces. Mohammed Tamimi and his father were shot while leaving their home in Nabi Saleh, in the occupied West Bank. The Israel military said its soldiers opened fire while in pursuit of two gunmen who had earlier shot at a nearby Jewish settlement.

A three-year-old Palestinian boy has died four days after being shot in the head by Israeli soldiers. Mohammed Tamimi was shot in the head last Thursday near his village of Nebi Saleh while riding in a car with his father. He was airlifted to Israel’s Sheba Hospital but died of his wounds on Monday, hospital officials said.

A 3-year-old Palestinian boy was in critical condition at an Israeli hospital Friday morning after being shot by Israeli fire in the occupied West Bank. The army opened an investigation into what it said was an unintentional shooting.

Mohammed al-Tamimi was the youngest of the 27 Palestinian children killed in Gaza and the West Bank this year.