NABLUS, April 24, 2011 (WAFA) – Three Palestinians Sunday were injured after a group of settlers stoned passing vehicles on the crossroad leading to Nablus city, north of the West Bank.

Ghassan Daghlas, Palestinian official responsible for the settlement file in the northern West Bank, said that tens of settlers stoned Palestinians’ vehicles at the main roads leading to Nablus and some other towns and villages such as: Hawara, Burin and Beit Furik.

Daghlas pointed out that as a result of the settlers assaults, 13 year-old Yazan Saqf al-Heit and other two Palestinians were injured in their arms and heads; Saqf El-heet was moved to a hospital in Nablus to receive treatment.

Israeli forces didn’t interfere to stop the settlers from stoning the Palestinians’ vehicles, he added.

Later, Israeli settlers closed down Hawara road and Nablus-Qalqilyia crossroad and prevented Palestinians from passing through. 

Daghlas asked Palestinian drivers to be careful and to look for alternative roads to reach their homes safely due to the heavy presence of Israeli settlers on the main roads.

To be noted, an Israeli settler was shot and killed while others were wounded after a group of settlers snuck into Joseph’s Tomb near Nablus without security coordination with the Palestinians.

M.H./F.R.