Israeli occupation settlers attacked several Palestinian schools and homes in Barqa town, northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, on Wednesday morning, February 15, 2023.

Palestinian local sources reported that Israeli settlers attacked both Barqa primary and secondary schools, smashing the glass of several windows.

In addition. the sources added that Israeli settlers attacked several homes with stones. They vandalized 15 windows of Palestinian homes in the area.

Israeli settlers from the Homesh settlement, built on the Palestinians’ land of Barqa, routinely attack Palestinian families and their properties.

About 700,000 Israeli settlers live currently in more than 200 settlements built on Palestinian land considered illegal under international law.

Palestinian figures showed that Israeli forces and settlers carried out about 700 attacks against Palestinians and their properties in the occupied West Bank.

The attacks included assaulting Palestinians, uprooting trees, razing lands, seizing properties, burning and vandalizing vehicles, and closing roads.