Israeli army jeep strikes and injures Palestinian child

Saturday July 28, 2007 12:30 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC staff

A Palestinian child from the village of Yabud, located near the northern West Bank city of Jenin, was struck by an Israeli military jeep late on Friday night.

Local sources indicated that a number of military vehicles stormed the village shortly after midnight. Ala Abu Bakr, 13, was standing in front of his home when he was run over by an Israeli jeep. After soldiers hit the boy, they fled the scene and did not provide any medical assistance for the injured child.

Medical sources stated that the boy sustained moderate to serious wounds and was transported to the public hospital in the city of Jenin for treatment.

A similar incident of Israeli army violence against minors was witnessed in the village of Taqua, located near the southern West Bank city of Bethlehem when an invading army patrol attacked a local youth from the village. Witnesses told IMEMC that after brutally beating the boy, soldiers hot him in the head, transported him to a local military base and left him to bleed to death.

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