Jenin,(The Palestine Information Centre)An Israeli settler has run over a four-year-old Palestinian child near the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, leaving him in a critical condition.
The incident took place in the village of Kissan, east of Bethlehem, on Sunday, the official Palestinian WAFA news agency reported.
According to Palestinian sources, the boy, identified as Jibril Sawarkah, was near his father’s house when the extremist Israeli settler ran him over and fled the scene.
He was taken to the Bethlehem Arab Society for Rehabilitation, where his condition was reported to be critical, the report added.
The incident came after earlier in the day, Israeli forces killed three Palestinians in an ambush after firing at their vehicle near the city of Jenin in northern West Bank.