Four-month-old Palestinian injured in Israeli settlers' attack on parents' car

Rasa - A four-month-old Palestinian infant has been injured after Israeli settlers attacked her parents’ car traveling west of the northern occupied West Bank city of Nablus.

News ID: 441397

Date: 06 November 2018 - 13:35

RNA - According to the Palestinian Ma'an News Agency, the incident took place late on Sunday as Ali Shawahneh, from Kafr Thulth village, east of the northern West Bank district of Qalqilyah, was heading home along with his family when Israeli settlers started hurling rocks and stones at their vehicle passing near the Havat Gilad settlement.

The attack by extremist Jewish settlers prompted Shawahneh to slam on the breaks and suddenly stop, which resulted in his infant daughter’s head hitting the glass and her injury.

Reports said an Israeli military vehicle came to the scene and held the family at the location to take their statement on what had happened while the Shawahneh’s infant was crying. No ambulance was called to the scene.

After Shawahneh’s car was allowed to leave, the four-month-old infant was admitted to a hospital in Nablus, where she was treated for her head injury, according to Palestinian medical sources.

Back on October 12, a 45-year-old Palestinian mother of eight children, identified as Aisha Muhammad Talal al-Rabi, was killed after a car she was travelling in with her family was hit by a stone thrown by Israeli settlers near Nablus.

In another incident on August 19, a Palestinian man and his three children suffered injuries when a group of extremist settlers violently pelted their car with stones in the northern part of the West Bank.

No one has been arrested in any of the settlers’ attacks against Palestinians on West Bank roads.

About 600,000 Israelis live in over 230 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds.

Palestinians want the West Bank as part of a future independent Palestinian state with East Jerusalem al-Quds as its capital.

Israel's continued settlement expansion on Palestinian territories has been a major sticking point in Israeli-Palestinian talks, which have stalled since 2014.

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