NABLUS, October 21, 2022 (WAFA) - Several Palestinians were injured today while 12 others suffocated from pepper gas in an attack by Israeli settlers on the villages of Huwwara and Burin, to the south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.

Ghassan Daghlas, a local Palestinian activist, told WAFA that a group of Israeli settlers , guarded by army, assaulted Palestinian residents in Huwwara, hurled stones at them and sprayed them with pepper gas, injuring two Palestinians in their heads and causing many cases of suffocation from pepper gas inhalation.

He said the settlers also attacked vehicles on the main street of the village as well as shops, causing damage to some of them.

Settlers also reportedly attacked homes of Palestinians in the eastern neighborhood of the village.

Settlers also attacked Palestinian civilians in the village of Burin, nearby, injuring at least two Palestinians in the head and eye respectively. The two were moved to hospitals for medical treatment.

Over the past month, there has been a serious rise in attacks by extremist Israeli settlers on defenceless Palestinian civilians across the occupied West Bank, including shutdown of roads, pelting vehicles with stones and physically attacking defenceless villagers and passers-by.

Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli occupation authorities.

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