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OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, (PIC)-- Israeli settlers from the Yetshar settlement in the northern West Bank on Friday afternoon seriously wounded a seven-year-old girl who was travelling with her family in a car in the area.

The settlers threw a rock at the car as it passed near the settlement. The rock broke the window and hit the girl and her mother who was lightly wounded. Both the girl and her mother were taken to a hospital in Nablus.

Attacks by Israeli settlers, who are usually armed, on Palestinian civilians have increased in all areas in the West Bank. They usually take the form of attacking Palestinians working their fields or Palestinian cars travelling near the settlements.