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Israeli extremists injure herdswoman, butcher goats

Friday, 05 August 2016 9:39 AM [ Last Update: Friday, 05 August 2016 10:55 AM ]

A Palestinian shows a goat injured in a knife attack by suspected Israeli settlers.

Suspected Israeli extremists have injured a young Palestinian herdswoman and slaughtered 11 of her goats in a knife attack in the west of the Israeli-occupied West Bank.

Masked men launched the knife attack against the flock and started a blaze northeast of the city of Ramallah, The Times of Israel reported.

The female was minding the flock when she “noticed that a number of masked men had come up to her flock and started attacking it,” Israeli police said in a statement.

The police stopped short of identifying the assailants, but speculated that they were extremists.

Israeli settlers repeatedly carry out violent, sometimes deadly, attacks against Palestinians and their properties in the West Bank and Jerusalem al-Quds.

On Wednesday, it was reported that the Israeli army also plans to sell the animals it has unlawfully seized from Palestinian farmers in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley back to them.

The army has published advertisements for the sale of 40 donkeys in Arabic, targeting an audience of Palestinian farmers from whom the animals were seized in the first place.

Earlier this week, a video emerged of two armed Israeli soldiers confiscating and throwing away an eight-year-old Palestinian girl's bicycle for no apparent reason in the West Bank city of al-Khalil (Hebron).

The video was taken by a member of the Israeli human rights group B’tselem in July and recently published on YouTube.

In the footage the Israeli troops can be seen bullying the girl who was playing with her siblings. After stomping on her bike, the Israelis send the child home in tears, then take her bike and throw it in nearby bushes.

Last November, a young Palestinian man was reportedly burned to death after a group of Israeli settlers mercilessly beat him and set fire to his car in the northern part of the occupied Palestinian territories.

On July 31, 2015, an 18-month-old Palestinian baby boy, Ali Dawabsheh, lost his life in a large fire that broke out after extremist Israeli settlers threw firebombs and Molotov cocktails into his family house in the town of Duma, southeast of Nablus.

More than half a million Israelis live in over 230 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East Jerusalem al-Quds.

The United Nations and most countries regard the Israeli settlements as illegal because the territories were captured by Israel in a war in 1967 and are hence subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied lands.

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