A 12-year-old Palestinian teenage girl has sustained moderate injuries in an incident during which a group of Israeli settlers pelted the car she was traveling in with rocks in the central occupied West Bank.
Local sources, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the girl, identified as Rua Hazim Sawalha, was in a car just north of Ramallah, located 10 kilometers (6 miles) north of al-Quds (Jerusalem), late on Saturday, when settlers hurled rocks at the car and injured her.
Earlier in the day, an Israeli settler opened fire on a young Palestinian man in the town of ar-Rihiya, situated six kilometers (3.7 miles) southwest of al-Khalil (Hebron). The youth was struck in the thigh.
Armed settlers regularly attack Palestinian villages and farms and set fire to their mosques, olive groves and other properties in the West Bank under the so-called “price tag” campaign. However, Tel Aviv rarely detains the assailants.
Price tag attacks are acts of vandalism and violence carried out with impunity by Israeli settlers against Palestinians and their property as well as Islamic holy sites.
On December 31, 2014, ten-year-old Palestinian Amir Majed Ahmad Suleiman was struck by an Israeli settler’s car while trying to cross a main road in the town of Tuqu’, located about 12 kilometers (7 miles) southeast of Bethlehem.
Five-year-old Palestinian girl, Enas Khalil, died on October 19 after being injured in a hit-and-run incident involving an Israeli settler near the city of Ramallah.
Khalil was one of the two girls that an Israeli settler hit with his car on the main road in the town of Sinjil near Ramallah. The second girl, identified as eight-year-old Nilin Asfour, was also badly injured in the accident.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 settlements built in the occupied Palestinian territories since 1967.
