Israeli settlers injure several Palestinians, damage vehicle in Nablus attacks
Several Palestinians have been injured in an Israeli settler attack near Duma village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, an activist says.
Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlements in the northern West Bank, said on Monday that a horde of Israeli settlers hurled stones at Palestinian cars traveling on a road near Duma, the official Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.
Two Palestinians were injured in the attack and the windshields of their vehicle were smashed by the settlers.
The casualties, both residents of Qusra village, south of Nablus, were treated at the scene.
In another incident, a number of Palestinian passengers suffered eye injuries when Israeli settlers chased their car near Jamma’in town, south of Nablus, and attacked them with pepper spray.
Meanwhile, Israeli troops bulldozed vast tracts of Palestinian-owned land in the south of Qaryut village, south of Nablus, on the same day.
According to Daghlas, seven bulldozers belonging to the Israeli military leveled swaths of land in the west of Qaryut in line with efforts to expand the illegal settlements of Eli and Shilo and connect them with a road.
Israeli soldiers and settlers have been escalating their attacks against Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories, in an attempt to forcibly expel Palestinians from their lands and make way for expanding illegal settlements.
According to human rights groups, acts of violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians and their property are a daily occurrence throughout the occupied West Bank.
More than 600,000 Zionists live in over 230 illegal settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds.
All the settlements are considered illegal under international law. The UN Security Council has condemned in numerous resolutions the Israeli regime's settlement constructions in the occupied territories.
This comes as the Israeli regime has been pressing ahead with its illegal settlement expansion in the Palestinian territories despite international outcry. The policy has seen the support of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s extremist cabinet.
In the latest move to expand illegal settlements, the regime's authorities on Monday approved the construction of nearly 5,700 new settler units in the occupied West Bank.
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