JENIN, August 5, 2015 (WAFA) –
Israeli Jewish settlers last night attacked Palestinian homes with stones as
they provocatively approached the outskirts of Silat ad-Daher, some 20 kilometers
to the south of Jenin in northern West Bank, security sources told WAFA.
The settlers, who also chanted
racist slogans against Arabs and Palestinians, provoked a scuffle with angry
local Palestinians who forced them out of the area.
The village is close to what
was known as Homesh and Sa-Nur, two Israeli settlements which were evicted after
Israel’s unilateral disengagement from Gaza and four other settlements and a
military base in northern West Bank in 2005.
On July 30, some 200 settlers organized
an overnight hike to the former settlement in an attempt to resettle there
before they were forced to leave by the Israeli army. According to Israeli
media, among those who attempted to reoccupy the former settlement were families
who were evicted in 2005 as well as rabbis, public figures, and MK Bezalel
Smotrich from the nationalist Jewish Home party.
During the settlers’
provocative visit to Sa-Nur, which is adjacent to Nablus-Jenin highway, settlers
assaulted passing Palestinian vehicles with stones and provoked tension in the
area.
Meanwhile last night, settlers
entered the village of Hares near the town of Salfit, in central West Bank, and
pelted Palestinian homes with stones before local Palestinians gathered in an
attempt to confront them.
According to local sources, the
settlers had also some Molotov cocktails on their possession, which means they
were plotting a malicious act. But after locals attempted to confront them, an
Israeli army force arrived in the scene and ordered the settlers out of the
area.
Violence by
illegal Jewish settlers is commonplace. They have repeatedly attacked
Palestinian property and worship places. Settler violence includes property and
mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on
vulnerable homes, among others.
Only last
Friday, a group of Jewish fanatics killed an 18-month-old Palestinian baby and
seriously injured his entire family, during a predawn arson attack which
targeted two homes in the village of Duma, south of Nablus.
The baby’s
father, Sa’ad Dawabsheh, his mother Riham and his 4-year-old brother Ahmad
sustained third degree burns and were transferred to several hospitals in the
city of Nablus to receive immediate medical care.
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