The Israeli Occupation Ministry of Justice announced Sunday that it will not prosecute two policemen for blinding a nine-year-old Palestinian child after he was hit with an IOF rubber bullet. 

The family of Palestinian child Malik Issa, whose eye was blotted out, said that in February their son was hit by a crowd control bullet while buying a sandwich.

The incident was recorded in the mainly Palestinian town of Issawiya, adjacent to Occupied East Jerusalem, and which was annexed by the Israeli Occupation in 1967.

Police said at the time that they had intervened to counter 'riots' in the area.

The Ministry of Justice said that its Internal Affairs Department, after extensive investigations, concluded that "there is insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges."

She said that the security force, who was suspected of firing the bullets, "encountered resistance, including stone-throwing," while trying to arrest one of them.

The decision stated that "during the operation, a rubber bullet was fired at a wall not close to the location where the child was standing."

The ministry said that a medical investigation did not rule out the possibility that the child had lost his sight in the eye "by a stone and not by a rubber bullet."

While the security forces were acquitted of any criminal responsibility, the Internal Affairs Department called on the police to conduct an investigation into the incident, which "includes the use of a rubber bullets rifle during the implementation of an operation near civilians," according to the statement.

"It is a dangerous and unfortunate incident that occurred during the implementation of an operation," the statement added.