RAMALLAH, Friday, April 7, 2023 (WAFA) – Extremist Israeli settlers hurled stones today at Palestinian vehicles at the entrance to the city of Ramallah and near the village of Tuqu, to the east of Bethlehem in the south of the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.

In Ramallah, WAFA correspondent said groups of army-guarded extremist Israeli settlers blocked the main entrance to Ramallah and pelted stones at Palestinian vehicles that approached the road through the Israeli military checkpoint of Beit El. The checkpoint was shut down to the Palestinian traffic by the Israeli army following the rampage by settlers.

Meantime, rampaging Israeli settlers gathered at the entrance to the colonial Israeli settlement of Tekoa, illegally built on Palestinian lands near the village of Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem, and embarked on hurling stones at Palestinian vehicles passing at the main street adjacent to the village and the settlement, causing damage to some of them. No injuries were reported.

Israeli settler violence is commonplace across the occupied West Bank, and is rarely prosecuted by the Israeli occupation authorities.

M.N