BETHLEHEM, November 6, 2014 (WAFA) – A Palestinian from the village of al-Khader, west of Bethlehem, survived on Thursday a murder attempt by an Israeli settler, who drove fast towards the former in an obvious attempt to run him over, local sources reported.

Ahmad Salah, coordinator of the Anti-Settlement Committee in the village, said Mohannad Salah, a Palestinian farmer, 33, was walking along Hebron-Bethlehem highway when an Israeli settler drove fast towards him in an apparent murder attempt.

Salah said the farmer instantly hid behind the roadside steel barrier, escaping the murder attempt against him.

On October 19, an Israeli settler deliberately killed four-year-old Inas Dar Khalil and seriously injured another girl when he deliberately ran them over with his car near Ramallah.

Whereas settlers survive any legal proceeding in most run-over incidents of Palestinians, direct shooting and killing orders are taken right away by Israeli army and police in case the driver was a Palestinian.

Only yesterday, Israeli police shot dead a Palestinian driver after he lost control of his car, running over police officers, killing a Border Police officer and injuring at least 10 others in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah.

Police described the incident, which took place on the seam line between west Jerusalem and the city's annexed Arab east, as a 'hit and run terror attack.

On October 29, the Palestinian Foreign Ministry issued a statement denouncing Israel’s discriminatory treatment of Palestinians and Israelis, stressing that Israel follows an obvious discrimination policy in handling incidents committed by Israelis.

M.N./T.R