Palestinian medical sources reported, on Wednesday, February 19, 2014, that a Palestinian child was injured after being rammed by an Israeli settler’s vehicle near the Ibrahimi Mosque, in Hebron city, in the southern part of the West Bank. The sources said that the child, Ahmad Naim Borqan, 7 years of age, was struck by the settler’s car in al-Masharfa neighborhood, south of the mosque.
He was moved to the Hebron Governmental Hospital suffering a mild-to-moderate injury. The settler fled the scene.
There have been numerous similar incidents in Hebron, as well as in several other parts of the occupied West Bank, causing dozens of injuries and several deaths among the Palestinians, including children and elderly.
Also in Hebron, soldiers invaded the town of Yatta, kidnapped one resident identified as Baha’ Abu Sabha, 20, and took him to an unknown destination.
Also on Wednesday, settlers attacked a Palestinian man in Burin village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, causing various cuts and bruises.
Local sources said that the settlers assaulted Mohammad Raja al-Zeben, 50, while working in his land close to the Yitzhar illegal settlement.
