JERUSALEM, Friday, April 26, 2019 (WAFA) – A total of 405 Palestinians were injured by Israeli forces in multiple clashes across the West Bank over the last two weeks of this month, reported the UN OCHA.
The agency said with the latest figures bring the number of Palestinian injuries since the beginning of the year to 1,400.
According to the agency’s “Protection of Civilians Report” covering the period April 9-22, in one major incident in the Israeli-controlled area of Hebron city (H2) on April 9, Israeli forces fired multiple tear gas canisters inside the compound of a boys’ school during clashes in the area. As a result, a total of 350 Palestinians, the majority of them students, required treatment after inhaling gas.
In addition, Israeli settlers carried out 12 attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank. The attacks led to 23 Palestinian injuries and damage to Palestinian property.
In two separate incidents in the “H2” area of Hebron city, on 13 and 18 April, Israeli settlers attacked four Palestinians with pepper spray, including two women.
The agency reported that 19 Palestinians were injured by settlers, or by the soldiers accompanying them, in clashes, after settlers entered two Ramallah-area villages (Turmus’ayya and Al Mazra’a al Qibliya) and two Nablus-area villages (Urif and Burin).
Further attacks included Israeli settlers vandalizing four tractors in Qaryut village (Nablus), 23 cars in Ein Yabrud (Ramallah), and spraying of graffiti on three houses in Ein Yabrud.
In Asira al Qibliya (Nablus), meanwhile, “settlers erected fences in an attempt to takeover some 50 dunums of Palestinian-owned land near Yitzhar settlement”, while near the settlement outpost of Adei Ad (Ramallah), 55 olive trees were vandalized, “in an area that requires prior coordination with the Israeli authorities to access”.
Israeli settlers routinely attack Palestinians and their property, and are rarely held to account by Israeli occupation authorities. In many instances, settlers harassing and attacking Palestinians are accompanied and protected by Israeli soldiers.
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