Palestinians: Israeli car injures two in West Bank

Two Palestinian women were injured on Tuesday when an Israeli car hit them on a road outside the northern West Bank city of Nablus, they told AFP. The two women were taken to Rafidia hospital in Nablus, where they told AFP they had been struck by an Israeli car as they crossed a road that runs between Nablus and the city of Ramallah. The car sped away without stopping, they said. "A settler car driving very fast on the road between Nablus and Ramallah ran us over while we were crossing the street, and then it hit another Palestinian car," said Saja Bilal Jumaa, 19, who was hospitalised with her sister Ahlam. Saja was admitted with fractures to her pelvis and shoulder, while her sister suffered light injuries, medics at the hospital said. Both women are from the village of Kufr Qadum, east of Qalqilya, and were on their way to the nursing school near Nablus where both are students when the incident occurred. The women said both Israeli police and military personnel arrived at the scene, but the Israeli army said it had no information on the incident and a police spokesman said he was checking into details of the report. On September 23, an eight-year-old Palestinian boy was seriously injured after he was hit by a car driven by a Jewish settler near Hebron, Palestinian medics and witnesses said. The boy, who was identified as Farid Jaber, was knocked down on route 60 near the entrance to Kiryat Arba settlement in the southern West Bank, witnesses told AFP, saying the car had driven off without stopping. Click here to find out more!