NABLUS,
Monday, August 09, 2021 (WAFA) – A Palestinian youth Sunday evening sustained
bruises at the hands of Israeli settlers in Beit Dajan village, east of Nablus, according to medical
sources.
Ahmad
Jibril, the head of the Emergency and Ambulance
Department at the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS), said that PRCS
medics evacuated a 25-year-old youth to a hospital, suffering bruises due to
severe beating at the hands of settlers.
The
village has become a scene of weekly protests against the confiscation of
Palestinian-owned land, east of the village, to make room for Israeli colonial
settlement construction.
Located
12 kilometers to the east of Nablus city, Beit Dajan has a population of some 4,700 and occupies a total
area of 44,100 dunams, including 360 donums of built-up area for the villagers. A large part of
the village lands were seized for the construction of Al-Hamra
and Mekhora (Mehola)
colonial settlements, east and southeast of the village, in 1971 and 1973.
The
village depends on grains plantation and fruitful trees, such as olive, figs
and almonds.
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 settlements in the West
Bank and East Jerusalem.
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