RAMALLAH, Saturday, January 14, 2023 (WAFA) - Prime Minister Mohammad Shtayyeh said the attack yesterday by armed settlers on a group of 40 Palestinian and international participants in a hike near Jericho warns of grave dangers in the future.

As the participants in the hike made their way through al-Maarajat in the Jericho area, a group of armed settlers intercepted them and began to assault them with batons. A number of hikers, among them American, French and Italian nationals, sustained injuries, bruises, and intimidation. They were taken to a hospital in Ramallah for treatment.

The Prime Minister said that this assault carries grave dangers; as it demonstrates what could happen as a result of the incitement by the extremist members of the far-right Israeli government.

He called on the United Nations, the United States, and European countries, whose citizens were victims of this barbaric attack that led to the injury and terrorizing of a number of them, to intervene immediately to put a stop to the crimes of the settlers and occupation soldiers in the killings and extra-judicial executions which so far left 12 dead since the beginning of the year; among them three minors.

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