ZIONIST SETLERS ATTACK PALESTINIAN HOMES AND VEHICLES IN NABLUS

Nablus, 23 Rabiul Akhir 1435/23 February 2014 (MINA) – Dozens of Israeli occupation settlers on Saturday evening attacked Palestinian private homes and smashed vehicles in the village of Jeet near Nablus, a PA official said.

Ghassan Daghlas, a PA official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, said that dozens of settlers from the Israeli outpost of Havat Gilad hurled rocks at local homes and smashed vehicles on the main village road.

Clashes subsequently broke out between settlers and locals, who tried to stop them from attacking the village, Maan News Agency reported as quoted by Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA).

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Daghlas said that the settlers attacked local farmers who were planting seedlings near the village on lands they own located close to the illegal Israeli outpost.

Locals confronted the settlers and forced them to leave the village after throwing stones. The destroyed cars were identified as belonging to Nassim al-Sadda and Awne Nassar.

Base on the data in 2013, there were 399 incidents of illegal settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. Over 90 percent of investigations into settler violence by Israeli police fail to lead to an indictment.

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More than 500,000 Israeli occupation settlers live in settlements across the West Bank and East Jerusalem, in contravention of international law.

Meanwhile, The Israeli occupation defense minister, Moshe Yaalon denounced a campaign of attacks on Palestinian civilians and property by extremist Israeli settlers as “outright terror” on Wednesday, after two cars were set on fire with Molotov cocktails and Hebrew graffiti — reading “price tag” and “Esh Kodesh revenge” — was sprayed on the walls of a West Bank village.

The vandalism took place in early morning near the village of Qusra, in apparent retaliation for an incident there the day before, in which a group of young settlers was captured and beaten by Palestinians who caught them trespassing. Village elders, and a Palestinian field worker for the Jewish group Rabbis for Human Rights, then stepped in to protect the settlers and arranged for them to be escorted away by Israeli soldiers.(T/P04/E01)

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Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)