Miracle escape for Palestinian boy run over for throwing rocks at Israeli cars

THESE stunning images show the moment a Palestinian boy throwing rocks at Israeli vehicles was hit by a vehicle driven by the head of a settler organisation that buys up property for Jews in Silwan, an area of Jerusalem.

• The boy is thrown over the car's bonnet, left. Above, passers-by offer assistance Pictures: AFP/Getty

The boy was taken to hospital, but despite the impact with the vehicle, shown left, he was only lightly injured.

Unrest flared after Israeli security forces staged an early morning raid on the city of Hebron in the West Bank, killing two gunmen wanted in connection with the killing of four Israelis near Hebron on 31 August, just as new Israeli-Palestinian peace talks were getting under way.

A Hamas official in the Gaza Strip, which is controlled by the militant group, confirmed that both of the men killed were senior members of the group's armed wing.

In Gaza, thousands attended a rally in the town of Jebaliya to mourn the slain militants.

Their deaths will be "the fuel for upcoming operations," a prominent Hamas official, Mushir al-Masri, told the crowd. He also accused the Palestinian government led by President Mahmoud Abbas, which wields limited power in the West Bank, of enabling the raid by cooperating with Israel.

He also condemned Abbas for holding new peace talks with Israel.

Those negotiations, which began early last month, are currently deadlocked over the end of a temporary slow-down of Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank.