An Israeli police officer has been suspended over an incident caught on video in which police took and eight-year-old girl's bike and threw it into bushes on the West Bank.
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In the video, an officer runs up to the girl playing in the street with her siblings in Hebron.
The girl screams, cries and drops her bicycle which an armed officer then steps on.
He shouts at her as she runs away and his colleague picks up the bike and tosses it into bushes.
The Independent quoted a spokesperson for the Israeli Border Police force, which guards Hebron's checkpoints, as saying an officer had been suspended over the incident.
"The Border Police views the incident with severity and is sorry for it," a statement said.
The Independent reported the girl, Anwar Burqan, had been riding her bicycle on a paved part of a road which is restricted for use by Jewish settlers and Israelis, while Palestinians are ordered to use an unsurfaced pathway on the other side of a fence.
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, which released the footage, said Anwar's family live nearby in a flat that has no garden and frequently play out in the divided street.
The girl's mother told the Haaretz newspaper that since the incident her daughter is too frightened to leave the house.
"It was a trauma that will stay with her for her whole life," she said.
The Independent said the confrontation has provoked fresh outrage over the treatment of Palestinians in Hebron, which is divided between Palestinian Authority and Israeli control.
B'Tselem said the confiscation of Anwar's bike was an example of "daily life" for Palestinians living under military occupation in the city.
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In the video, an officer runs up to the girl playing in the street with her siblings in Hebron.
The girl screams, cries and drops her bicycle which an armed officer then steps on.
He shouts at her as she runs away and his colleague picks up the bike and tosses it into bushes.
The Independent quoted a spokesperson for the Israeli Border Police force, which guards Hebron's checkpoints, as saying an officer had been suspended over the incident.
"The Border Police views the incident with severity and is sorry for it," a statement said.
The Independent reported the girl, Anwar Burqan, had been riding her bicycle on a paved part of a road which is restricted for use by Jewish settlers and Israelis, while Palestinians are ordered to use an unsurfaced pathway on the other side of a fence.
Israeli human rights group B’Tselem, which released the footage, said Anwar's family live nearby in a flat that has no garden and frequently play out in the divided street.
The girl's mother told the Haaretz newspaper that since the incident her daughter is too frightened to leave the house.
"It was a trauma that will stay with her for her whole life," she said.
The Independent said the confrontation has provoked fresh outrage over the treatment of Palestinians in Hebron, which is divided between Palestinian Authority and Israeli control.
B'Tselem said the confiscation of Anwar's bike was an example of "daily life" for Palestinians living under military occupation in the city.