A Palestinian 5-year-old child on Monday evening suffered injuries when an Israeli car deliberately hit him at a military barrier near al-Ibrahimi Mosque in al-Khalil city.

According to local sources an Israeli soldier rammed his car into the only five-year-old Ali Abu Mayyala near the Ibrahimi Mosque and injured him in his face and limbs.

Earlier on Monday Jewish settlers performed Talmudic rituals in the Old City of al-Khalil for the first time of its kind provoking the Muslim inhabitants of the city.

AL-KHALIL (PIC)– A Palestinian child on Sunday evening suffered injuries when an Israeli car deliberately hit him in al-Khalil city.

WAFA news agency quoted security sources as saying that a Jewish settler rammed his car into seven-year-old Omar Idris near the Ibrahimi Mosque and badly injured him.

The settler escaped the scene while the kid was rushed to hospital for urgent medical assistance.