October 7, 2011
"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 hospitalized 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.
Sajah, 19, and Ahlam
Bilal, 18, from Kufr Qaddoum were injured on Tuesday October 4th by Israeli
settler, Eliyaho Miller, on the main road in Huwara.
The two women were
walking to Ibn Sina College of Nursing where they are studying when the settler
crashed his vehicle into the women.
After he hit them both
and Sajah was thrown 10 meters from the accident, he attempted to flee the
scene by foot. Miller was stopped by a Palestinian taxi driver until the
Israeli police came to make a report.
The hit and run accident
occurred at 7:50am as the two sisters were walking to campus.
As Sajah and Ahlam were
about to cross the road, they both saw the settler’s car speed up when they
stepped into the street. He made contact with Sajah first in her left shoulder
which flung her body into the air until she fell 10 meters from the car.
She now has suffered
three broken bones in her upper left arm as well as both hips broken.
Her sister Ahlam has a
bruised, swollen eye and an injured right leg. Sajah was rushed to Rafidya
hospital to be treated for the injuries.
Under Israeli law, the
Israeli police are under obligation to call an Israeli ambulance when there are
injuries of any sort of accident involving settlers.
In the hesitancy from
Israeli police to call an ambulance, Palestinians living in Huwara took it upon
themselves to have an ambulance arrive in order to bring Sajah and Ahlam to the
Nablus hospital.
Both of the women said
Israeli police and military personnel eventually arrived at the scene, but the
Israeli army said it had no information on the accident and police reported
that they were checking into details of the event.
This particular settler
incident comes on the tails of increased harassment and violence towards
Palestinians by Israelis.
An official report quoted
by Quds Press earlier this week stated that there were 33 cases of deliberate
vehicular attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinian civilians in the West
Bank since the start of 2011.
Farid Jaber, 8, was murdered
after being hit by an Israeli settler’s car in Hebron on September 26th.
Nasser Abu al-Kabbash,
20, was involved in a similar hit and run accident with an Israeli settler in
Beit Dajan on October 10th.
All this is in addition
to “price tag” violence from Israeli settlers, the uprooting and burning of
olive trees in Palestinian cities around occupied West Bank as olive harvest
begins, and increased legal persecution of Palestinians for trivial reasons.
Sajah received surgery on
October 7th for her 3 broken bones in the left shoulder which went successfully
according to her doctor in Nablus.
The doctors at Rafidya
are waiting to see how well her pelvis bones begin to heal before undergoing
any correctional surgery.
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