Zionist Settler Runs Over Palestinian Child in West Bank
Zionist settler has run over a five-year-old Palestinian boy in the southern occupied West Bank, inflicting injuries on him.
Palestinian medical sources identified the victim as Zakariya Mahmoud al-Umour, adding that he was struck in Khallet al-Mayya area of Yatta town, located approximately 8 kilometers (4.9 miles) south al-Khalil (Hebron) on Tuesday.
The source added that the Israeli settler tried to drive away after wounding the child, but local residents managed to stop him.
The Palestinian boy was taken to a nearby hospital 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 largely going uninvestigated by Israeli authorities. Some of such events have even resulted in fatalities.
On October 19, 2014, five-year-old Palestinian girl, Enas Khalil, died after being injured in a similar hit-and-run incident involving an Israeli settler near the West Bank 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.
On August 17, a Palestinian man was killed after being knocked down by an Israeli settler in East al-Quds (Jerusalem).
Separately, on August 7, a settler ran over and injured an eight-year-old Palestinian girl in the southern West Bank.
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.
Zionist settlers destroy trees in occupied West Bank
Meanwhile, Zionist settlers have once again attacked Palestinian farms in the 
occupied West Bank and destroyed over a hundred trees and saplings.
On Monday, settlers uprooted more than 50 olive saplings in the town of al-Khader, south of Beit Lahm. They also cut and uprooted 85 grape vines along with more than 30 olive and almond trees in the Hal-houl town, north of Hebron (al-Khalil).
The agriculture industry, olive cultivation in particular, provides livelihood for about 80,000 Palestinian families in the West Bank. Israeli forces and 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” policy.
Price tag attacks are acts of vandalism and violence against Palestinians and their property as well as Islamic holy sites by Israeli settlers.
Earlier in March, Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian properties in occupied territories and chopped down some 300 olive trees in the village of Majdal Bani Fadilan, south of the city of Nablus.
The attacks are carried out with impunity. Palestinians say the violent attacks by Israeli settlers are systematic and are often ignored by Israeli officials.
The Al-Tadamun Foundation for Human Rights, a Palestinian NGO, said in an annual 2014 report that an estimated 8,000 trees, some of them hundreds of years old, were damaged and destroyed altogether by the Israelis last year.
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