An Israeli settler driving at high speed ran over, and injured a Palestinian girl, Sunday evening, on a road in Bethlehem, in the southern occupied West Bank.

According to local sources, the settler rammed his car into a young girl as she was walking with her brother, along the road, near the illegal Israeli settlement of Efrat in Bethlehem, and escaped the scene.

The girl was rushed to the Beit Jala hospital in Hebron where her condition was described as stable.

She was identified as Dunya Awwad from the village of Wad Rahhal in southern Bethlehem. No other information was available at the time of reporting.

Source: Days of Palestine

Edited for IMEMC: Ali Salam