Two Palestinian medics beaten, child stabbed in West Bank by illegal Israeli settlers

Date: 23 / 09 / 2007 Time: 11:18

Bethlehem – Ma'an –

Illegal Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians in two incidents on Saturday, leaving two Palestinian medics and a fifteen year old boy injured.

The medical workers were attacked by illegal Israeli settlers near the illegal Israeli settlement of Nokdeim, east of the West Bank City of Bethlehem Saturday.

Abdul-Halim Ja'afira, director of the Palestinian Red Crescent society in Bethlehem, said that the settlers beat a Red Crescent ambulance crew with clubs and the butts of guns.

Medic Muhammad Abu Ajamiyya and ambulance driver Samir Abu Sarah were treated at Beit Jala hospital of injuries sustained during the attack.

According to Ja'afira, the medics were transporting a patient on a road near Nekodim settlement when the ambulance was stopped at an Israeli military checkpoint. The Israeli soldiers reportedly instructed the crew to follow a civilian vehicle. They followed the car into the settlement, where, Ja'afira says, they were attacked by at least seven settlers who seized the medic and "demolished" the ambulance.

The driver reportedly escaped to a nearby Palestinian residence.

Palestinian boy stabbed near Hebron

In a separate incident in the southern West Bank city of Hebron from the illegal Israeli settlement of Kiryat Arba stabbed fifteen-year-old Muhammad Asila in his back with "a sharp tool."

Eyewitnesses said five illegal Israeli settlers attacked the boy while he was passing near the Israeli settlement, beating him and ultimately stabbing him in the back.

Asila was admitted to Al-Ahli hospital in Hebron for treatment.

Medical officials said the boy arrived at the hospital bleeding from his back, and bruised in several places. The officials confirmed Asila had been stabbed in the back and beaten "brutally."

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