An Israeli military jeep has run over a Palestinian toddler in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health in a statement identified the two-year-old victim as Adel Khader Shahin, adding that he was run over in the town of Bir Nabala, which lies eight kilometers (4.9 miles) northeast of al-Quds (Jerusalem), on Sunday.
The Palestinian toddler sustained head injuries, and was transported to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah to receive medical treatment.
There have been scores of “hit and run” incidents targeting Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, with most of them overlooked by Israeli authorities.
On April 28, an Israeli settler ran over a five-year-old Palestinian boy, identified as Zakariya Mahmoud al-Umour, with his car in the Khallet al-Mayya area of the town of Yatta, located approximately 8 kilometers (4.9 miles) south al-Khalil (Hebron).
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank, including East al-Quds, in 1967.
Much of the international community considers the settlements illegal because the territories were captured by Israel in a war in 1967 and are thus subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied lands.
