Two Palestinian Workers Martyred, 5 Others Injured As ‘Israeli’ Settler Runs Them Over

Palestinian security sources said the workers were struck by a bus, which had been empty of passengers, near a military checkpoint at the northern entrance to the city of Bethlehem, located about 10 kilometers south of occupied al-Quds, on Wednesday morning, Palestine's official Wafa news agency reported.

The sources added that two young men, identified as 29-year-old Ziad Ali Hussein Abiyat and Jaafar Omar Abayat, 30, were martyred in the incident, while five people suffered serious injuries.

‘Israeli’ occupation police officers reportedly located the bus, but claimed that the driver fled on foot.

There have been scores of hit-and-run incidents targeting Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, with most of them going uninvestigated by the occupation authorities.

Back on September 14, a Palestinian worker was seriously injured in a similar incident on a road near the town of Hawara, south of Nablus. The Zionist driver fled the scene.

The Palestinian was going to work when he was run over by the settler, who was driving at high speed.

More than 600,000 ‘Israeli’ settlers occupy over 230 settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds. All the settlements are illegal under international law.

The UN Security Council has condemned the Zionist settlement activities in several resolutions.