An elderly Palestinian was killed late Saturday night after he was hit by an Israeli settler driving in the Ein Samia area east of Ramallah.
According to Palestinian medical sources the elderly citizen called Mohammed Arshidat and aged 85 died after an Israeli settler rammed his car into his vulnerable body and fled right away.
Israeli ambulance crews who showed up at the scene pronounced him dead shortly afterwards.
The casualty’s son has been detained by the Israeli police for the second day over allegations of protesting attacks by Israeli settlers against Bedouin communities in the vicinity of Kafr Malik village east of Ramallah.
