Israel fatally shot a Palestinian child on Tuesday and left him to bleed while preventing an ambulance from reaching him.

Muhammad Rizq Shehade Salah was about 100 meters from the Israeli-built separation barrier in al-Khader village south of Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank when an Israeli soldier shot him in the torso with live ammunition.

The Israeli army claimed he had been throwing a Molotov cocktail, according to Haaretz.

But the military statement actually quoted by the newspaper is much more vague. It says that Israeli soldiers “identified three suspects who arrived at a location where Molotov cocktails were repeatedly thrown at Israeli vehicles recently.”

No Israelis were reported injured in the alleged incident.