Palestinian badly wounded in settler’s petrol bomb attack

JERUSALEM: A Palestinian man was in serious condition after a petrol bomb hit the taxi he was traveling in near a Jewish settlement in the Bethlehem region of the West Bank, hospital officials said yesterday.
Six Palestinians from the same family, residents of Nahalin village, were on Thursday evening heading to a nearby supermarket when their vehicle — painted bright yellow, marking it as a Palestinian taxi — was hit by the firebomb. The father of the family, sitting next to the driver, was stuck in the car that flipped over into a ditch after the attack and suffered burns to the face and body, officials at Hadassah Ein Kerem hospital in Jerusalem said.
Nahalin’s mayor told AFP the taxi driver had told him he saw the perpetrator, who was a Jewish settler.
Meanwhile, hundreds of Palestinians held a protest in the Gaza Strip yesterday against Israel and its hold over Jerusalem on the annual Iranian-inspired Quds Day.
“We are committed to the right of return and to liberation of prisoners and resistance against the occupation as long as it is on our land,” Rabah Mohanna, a leader of the leftist Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, told the demonstrators.
“Jerusalem is not going to be restored by absurd negotiations,” he said at the rally, held west of Gaza City.