NABLUS, July 27, 2018 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers Friday torched a Palestinian home and wheat fields between Jalud and Qusra villages, south of Nablus city, said a local official.

Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, said that settlers from Yesh Kodesh outpost attacked several Palestinian homes in Khallet al-Wusta area, located between the two villages, setting fire to one home and destroying another.

Fires caused extensive damages in the home.

Settlers also deliberately set fire to wheat fields in the area and opened fire towards Palestinian villagers who rushed in an attempt to put out fires. No injuries were reported though.

Settlers from Yesh Kodesh outpost have regularly attacked Palestinians from nearby villages, including Jalud, targeting their farmlands. Many of the attacks are intended to make life difficult for Palestinian villagers to force them to leave and allow settlers to expand their settlements.

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

Settlers‘ violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.

Between 500,000 and 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law.

All settlements across the West Bank are illegal under international law, particularly article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which establishes that the occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.

K.F.