A 13-year-old Gaza boy who was shot and seriously wounded by Israeli soldiers last week died this morning of his wounds.

Omar Abu al-Niel, from the Tuffah neighborhood east of Gaza City, died of wounds sustained last Saturday when he was shot during a rally held near the northeastern Gaza borders with Israel.

Abu Niel is the second Palestinian to die of wounds sustained during the same activity held marking the anniversary of the burning of Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.