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by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Jerusalem – January 9 2014, Eyewitnesses said that a settler child, approximately 12 years of age, sprayed the face of a Palestinian girl with chlorine and fled the scene. Soldiers kidnap a Palestinian in Hebron, attack a young woman.

The child suffered minor injuries and was locally treated, without the need to be moved to a hospital or a medical center.

The Israeli Police said it is searching for the assailant in an attempt to question him and “identify the motives of this attack”. The police received an official complaint from the Palestinian girl.

In related news, Israeli soldiers violently attacked a 17-year old Palestinian identified as Aseel Jaber, as she was walking near the Ibrahimi Mosque, in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. Jaber suffered various cuts and bruises.

Also in Hebron, Israeli soldiers invaded Halhoul town, north of the city, and kidnapped one resident after violently breaking into his home and searching it.

Local sources said that the soldiers kidnapped Ibrahim Yousef Zama’ra, taking him to an unknown destination.

Earlier on Thursday, a number of Israeli settlers infiltrated the Palestinian village of Sinjil, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and wrote racist graffiti on walls of a local home in the village.