Settlers Escalate Attacks on Palestinian vehicles, Homes in West Bank

 

Nablus, MINA — Extremist Israeli settlers, some of them armed, escalated their rampages on Thursday evening on Palestinian homes and vehicles in many locations across the occupied West Bank, especially in Nablus district in the north of the territory, WAFA reported, citing local sources.

In Hebron district, southern West Bank, settlers attacked vehicles passing at Beit Enoun junction, east of the city, injuring at least one driver. Settlers rampaged through the junction and chanted logos calling for banning Palestinians from using public roads in the West Bank.

Settlers further attacked vehicles with stones and empty bottles at route 60 just outside the town of Beit Ummar.

Jewish settlers from illegal Yitzhar settlement, south of Nablus, attacked the northern section of the village of Huwwara, nearby, and stoned homes in the area causing damage to some of them homes.

Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the area, said the settlers also pelted stones at vehicles passing on route 60 in the village and smashed their windshields.

Settlers protected by Israeli soldiers also attacked with stones vehicles passing at Nablus-Tulkarm road as well as near the village of Lubban Esharqia in the West Bank.

West Bank hospitals earlier declared that at least one person was injured in the head by a rock thrown by Jewish settlers near Nablus.

Settler rampages, in addition to stoning Palestinian cars on the West Bank roads, have reached several vulnerable villages in the north, center and south of the West Bank, said reports.

People have been called on to be careful on the roads and in their villages and to be prepared to fend off any attacks by the rampaging settlers. (T/RS5/RS1)

Mi’raj Islamic News Agency (MINA)