Yesterday evening, Wednesday, an Israeli settler was killed, and a number of Palestinian citizens were injured, in a terrible traffic accident between several vehicles on Al-Auja Road, north of Jericho.

Local sources reported that at least 4 citizens from the village of Al-Zubaidat, north of Jericho, were moderately injured when their vehicle collided with a settler's vehicle and other vehicles on the road to Al-Auja village. They were taken for treatment by the PRCS ambulance.

Israeli sources indicated that there were about nine injuries in the accident, some of them serious, and they were transferred to hospitals in the 48 lands, while it was later announced that the settler was killed.