NABLUS, Wednesday, August 12, 2020 (WAFA) –Israeli settlers today closed a main road in the north of the West Bank and attacked Palestinian vehicles traveling on that road , according to local sources.
Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement construction in the northern West Bank, said that a group of settlers , protected by Israeli soldiers, hurled stones at Palestinian vehicles as they were driving on a road connecting Nablus to Qalqilya, causing damage to some and threatening the life of their occupants.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
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