Israeli settlers burned houses and cars in West Bank violence | Story

Dozens of Israeli settlers stormed various locations in the West Bank, burning cars and attacking Palestinians.

Israeli settlers have launched another wave of violence in the occupied West Bank, with houses and cars set on fire and a Palestinian child attacked.

The Palestinian Wafa newspaper reported that a man and his son were attacked with “sharp weapons” in the village of Khirbet Shuweika, south of Hebron, on Friday.

The father and son were taken to hospital for head injuries.

Israeli settlers set fire to a house in the village of al-Lubban Asharqiya, south of Nablus, after which members of the Palestinian Civil Defense arrived to put out the fire.

In Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, Wafa told the security that residents “burned the edge of the village, burned a citizen’s car, and wrote racist words on the walls of the houses”.

In the village of al-Asa’asa in Jenin, the Israeli army forced people to take out the body that had just been buried and take it somewhere else. He added that the first location was very close to an illegal Israeli settlement.

Israeli settlers also attacked a Palestinian in the town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, and stole his cell phone.

A group of Palestinians were playing in the area of ​​Burak Sulayman (Solomon’s Pools), south of Bethlehem, but they were forced to leave after Israeli soldiers fired heavy bombs at them.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society helped two people breathe tear gas and evacuated five others from the scene after the incident.

‘Tear shells are bombs’

In the town of Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem, the mayor, Taysir Abu Mufreh, told Wafa that Israeli forces fired “tear gas and loudspeaker bombs” at a group of worshipers leaving the local mosque and trapped many of them inside.

On Friday, Israeli forces arrested four Palestinian men in the city of Battir, west of Bethlehem, as they were walking near a railway line. The next day, three more Palestinians were arrested when they attacked the city of Nablus.

The settlers attacked the town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah, sparking clashes as civilians clashed with them.

Human rights groups say Israeli authorities have allowed the settlers to do so it works without any penalty in their attacks on the Palestinian people.

In February, Israel accepted the plan saying that large areas of the West Bank that have been taken over are “state property”.

More than 700,000 Israelis live in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank.