In a statement released soon after the confrontations in the village near Ramallah, the Israeli army said that “assailants fired in the direction of the community of Neveh Tzuf.”
Soldiers stationed nearby “responded by firing a number of bullets,” the statement said.
As a result of the army’s fire, two Palestinians were wounded, one of whom was the three-year-old, it said.
The army added that it “regrets harm to non-combatants and is committed to doing everything in its power to prevent such incidents.”
Tamimi was taken to Sheba by helicopter for treatment, before being pronounced dead on Monday.
Tamimi’s father, Haitham was also wounded in the incident.
“I was with my child in my car, we wanted to visit family,” Haitham al-Tamimi, 40, said on Thursday evening after the incident.
“Suddenly they shot at me and my son, I thought it came from the (military) tower,” he added from his hospital bed.
The family told official Palestinian news agency Wafa the body would be returned on Monday evening.
Since the start of the year, at least 156 Palestinians, 21 Israelis, a Ukrainian and an Italian have been killed in violence linked to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, according to tally compiled from official sources.
The figures include combatants as well as civilians and, on the Israeli side, three members of the Arab minority.
AFP
