RAMALLAH, October 6, 2017 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers Friday hurled stones at a Palestinian car driving at Ramallah-Nablus Road in the West Bank, seriously injuring the driver, said security sources.

Sources told WAFA, settlers from the illegal West Bank settlement of Shiloh slightly after midnight attacked a Palestinian car passing through the Nablus-Ramallah road with stones, causing the driver multiple skull fractions and other critical injuries.

The 26-year-old driver, a resident of Asira Al-Shamaliya village to the north of Nablus, was transferred to a Ramallah-based hospital for medical treatment.

The settlement of Shiloh was illegally built in 1978 on private Palestinian land in the northern West Bank. Settlements are unlawful under international humanitarian law.

B’Tselem, the Israeli information center for human rights, has also said that while it is the duty of Israel, the occupying power, to protect the Palestinians in the West Bank from settlers’ attacks, it does not do enough to prevent Israeli civilians from attacking Palestinians, their property and their lands.

“The undeclared policy of the Israeli authorities in response to these attacks is lenient and conciliatory. Perpetrators are rarely tried, and many cases are not investigated at all or are closed with no operative conclusions,” said B’Tselem.

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