Israeli settlers have injured three Palestinians after attacking their vehicles in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
Faraan: The incident occurred in the village of Burqa, northwest of Nablus, in the northern parts of the occupied West Bank on Sunday, Palestine’s official Wafa news agency reported, citing Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors Israeli settlement activities in the north of the West Bank.
According to Ghassan, Israeli settlers, under the full protection of the Israeli military, began hurling stones at Palestinians’ vehicles passing in the vicinity of the evacuated illegal Homesh settlement.
The attack inflicted injuries to at least three Palestinians, he further told Wafa.
Settlers attack Palestinian vehicles in Ramallah
On Saturday night, Israeli settlers also threw stones at Palestinian vehicles driving at Ein Ayyoub junction, to the west of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, Wafa said in a separate report, citing local sources.
Israeli settlers also attacked a Palestinian house in the village of Ramin, in the vicinity of the city of Tulkarm, it further said, adding that local residents thwarted the invading settlers and forced them out of the village.
According to Wafa, no casualties were reported among Palestinian civilians in both attacks.
Separately, scores of Israeli settlers blocked a section of road 60 east of al-Khalil, south of the occupied West Bank, and hurled stones at Palestinian vehicles passing down the road.
Systematic attacks by Israeli settlers against Palestinians are alarmingly in the rise in the Occupied Territories, particularly in northern parts of the West Bank.
