News Desk
WEST BANK, PALESTINE: Two Palestinian brothers were killed in a car-ramming attack by an illegal Israeli settler in the occupied West Bank, reported the official Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Zakaria Fayala, the director of the Jerusalem Governorate office in Qalandiya said in a press statement on Saturday that Mohammad and Muhannad Yousef Muteir, the brothers from Qalandia refugee camp in the occupied Jerusalem, were fixing a punctured tyre of their car when the settler’s speeding car ran into them, killing Mohammad instantly and wounding his brother who later succumbed to his injuries at a hospital.
“Israeli settler deliberately hit the brothers”
Fayala said that the two brothers were travelling with three other siblings, to run errands for their sister’s wedding next Friday when their car broke down. He said they were “deliberately” hit by the fast-driving settler who then fled the scene.
Imad Mutair, cousin of the victims also confirmed that they were killed after getting hit by the fast-driving Israeli settler.
The incident occurred near the Israeli checkpoint of Za’tara, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank.
