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Palestinian vehicles vandalized by settler attacks in West Bank
A number of Palestinian vehicles were vandalized overnight on Friday in a new wave of Israeli settler attacks across the West Bank, according to local and security sources.
In the central West Bank, Israelis gathered outside Kharbatha Bani Harith hamlet, west of Ramallah, under military protection, intercepting and hurling stones at Palestinian commuters, causing damage to several of them.
A resident of the Jenin-district town of Kafr Ra’i, over 20 Israelis attacked a vehicle traveling on the Nablus-Ramallah Road near Silwad town, east of Ramallah, pelting it with stones and empty bottles and causing damage to it, according to Hatem Dhiyab.
Dhiyab went on to say that his son, Sayf, who was driving the car, was terrified and anxious as he sped to Ramallah without being hurt.
In the Nablus district, Israelis smashed the windshields of many automobiles near the colonial settlement of Yitzhar, which was erected on the properties of a group of peasants south of Nablus.
Similar attacks near the entrance of Beit Furik town, east of Nablus, were confirmed, causing damage.
A group of settlers in Bethlehem district blocked the Jerusalem-Hebron Road, commonly known as Road 60, near the colonial settlement bloc of Gush Etzion.
The European Union has expressed its concern over the escalating violence of Israeli settlers in the West Bank by calling on Israel to take measures to safeguard Palestinians following a recent rise in settler attacks.
The EU Delegation to the Palestinians tweeted on Wednesday, “Under IHL (international humanitarian law), IL (international law), authorities (of Israel) must take all necessary steps to safeguard Palestinians and their property against settler aggression.”
Israeli settlers carried out 128 attacks in the West Bank from January to March, causing property damage in 113 of them and injuring Palestinians in 15 of them, according to the UN.
In the West Bank and East Jerusalem, over 700,000 Israeli settlers live in colonial settlements.
