SALFIT, Monday, March 18, 2019 (WAFA) – Extremist Israeli settlers Monday morning set up a big tent at a turnaround leading to the village of Kifl Hares, north of the occupied West Bank city of Salfit, said WAFA correspondent.

She said that a large group of settlers pitched a tent at the turnaround leading to the village and are currently inside it under heavy protection of Israeli forces.

Palestinians fear that tent is the precursor of imminent Israeli settlers’ attacks against them and their property in retaliation for Sunday’s killing of an Israeli soldier and injuring two others in a stabbing and shooting attack north of Salfit city.

A Palestinian killed an Israeli soldier and severely wounded two others in shooting and stabbing attacks before fleeing the scene outside the settlement of Ariel, north of Salfit.

In the wake of the attack, Israeli forces closed the entrances to Kifl Haris, Haris and Deir Istiya villages as part of a large-scale manhunt for the perpetrator.

Such Israeli measures, taken under the guise of security, are intended to entrench Israel’s 51-year-old military occupation of the West Bank and its settler colonial project which it enforces with routine and frequently deadly violence against Palestinians.

K.T./ K.F.