Israeli settler runs over Palestinian child in Bethlehem
Bethlehem (QNN)- An Israeli illegal settler ran over a 5-year-old Palestinian child in eastern Bethlehem in the occupied West Bank on Saturday.
Palestinian security sources said that the settler ran over Muhammad Raed Askar (5 years old). The child was directly transferred to a hospital in Jerusalem and he was moderately wounded.
Settlers' crimes have dramatically increased in the occupied West Bank. Most Israeli attacks target Palestinian children. A Palestinian child was also injured in a run-over attack, which took place recently, while a 42-year-old teacher called Fatima Sulaiman passed away after being run over by a settler in the south of the occupied West Bank on Thursday.
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