Palestinians held a funeral Saturday for 11-year-old boy Shadi Abdel-Al who was killed by Israeli soldiers on Friday in the weekly protests at the Gaza Strip border, Reuters reported.
Two more Palestinians were killed and at least 248 others were wounded, bringing the number of Palestinians killed since demonstrations were launched on March 30 to 177.
According to Reuters, the 11-year-old, Shadi Abdel-Al, is the youngest fatality from Israeli gunfire.
“He used to go every Friday to the marches like thousands of other people. This Friday was his destiny to die as a martyr,” the boy’s father, Abdel-Aziz Abdel-Al, told Reuters.
The Israeli military said it used force necessary to repel 13,000 Palestinians who massed at several points at the fence as some hurled rocks, fire-bombs and grenades at troops under cover of smoke from burning tyres.
