NABLUS,
Friday, July 30, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today cut wooden electric poles
using chainsaws in Burin town, south of Nablus city, according to a local
activist.
Ghassan
Daghlas, who monitors colonial settlement activities
in the northern West Bank, confirmed that a group of settlers used chainsaws to
chop down six wooden electric poles supplying electricity to a house located on
the outskirts of the town, causing power blackout in the area.
The
targeted house is separated from the town by the nearby settler-only bypass
road, which runs to the illegal colonial settlement of Yitzhar,
inhabited by hardcore fanatic Jews.
Settler
violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank
and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
Settlers'
violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of
crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.
There
are over 700,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial Jewish-only settlements in
the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
K.F.
