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Palestinian toddler suffers head injury after Israeli settlers attack al-Khalil in West Bank

Saturday, 23 November 2019 6:45 PM [ Last Update: Saturday, 23 November 2019 7:21 PM ]

A Palestinian toddler has reportedly suffered a head injury after scores of extremist Jewish settlers, under Israeli army protection, attacked ordinary Palestinian civilians in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

Palestinian news agencies reported that the settlers stormed the city of al-Khalil, located 30 kilometers (19 miles) south of Jerusalem al-Quds, on Saturday, and pelted passersby, local residents and shopkeepers with stones.

The report noted that a toddler, identified as Mohammad Hasan Tanina, was hit with a stone in the head inside his family home after settlers attacked the house of Palestinians in the Tel Rumeida neighborhood of the city.

According to the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS), its crew members dealt with the head injury, and quickly transferred the 18-month-old kid to Al-Khalil Governmental Hospital to receive further treatment.

Israeli settlers vandalize Palestinian property in West Bank

A group of Israeli settlers vandalizes Palestinian-owned property in the occupied West Bank.

Four other Palestinian civilians, including disabled ones, were also injured in the attack.

The PCRS added that settlers also assaulted a Palestinian ambulance as paramedics were treating the wounded.

A group of settlers also threw stones at Palestinian shops in the Old City of al-Khalil, forcing the owners to down shutters.

Witnesses said the Israeli army did nothing to protect the Palestinian civilians.

Earlier in the day, the Israeli military closed Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil to Muslim worshippers as thousands of extremist settlers converged on the sacred site to mark a Jewish holiday.

On Friday, Palestinian vehicles were torched and had their tires slashed, and graffiti was scrawled on buildings, in “price tag” attacks in four separate Palestinian villages near the West Bank cities of Nablus and Ariel, according to Palestinian media.

The Hamas resistance movement called on resistance fighters to counter such attacks on Palestinian homes in the West bank.

حماس تدعو السلطة لخطوات حازمة لمواجهة اعتداءات المستوطنين بحق منازل الفلسطينيين الآمنين وممتلكاتهم في الضفة الغربيةhttps://t.co/loaxAzcB48 pic.twitter.com/3fdrJCChgT
— وكالة شهاب (@ShehabAgency) November 22, 2019

The acts of vandalism occurred in the northern West Bank villages of Qabalan, Beit Dajan, Majdal Bani Fadil and Kafr al-Dik.

The so-called price tag attacks are acts of vandalism and violence against Palestinians and their property as well as Muslim holy sites by Israeli settlers.

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

The UN Security Council has condemned Israel’s settlement activities in the occupied territories in several resolutions.

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