Israeli settlers attacked on Saturday, 8 April 2023 Palestinian-owned vehicles with stones and injured 4 Palestinians near the Israeli illegal settlement of ‘Beit El’, north of Ramallah.

Local Palestinain sources reported that Israeli settlers attacked Palestinians’ vehicles north of Ramallah in which 4 Palestinians sustained bruises and wounds.

In a related incident, Two Palestinian citizens were injured in an attack by Israeli settlers backed by Israeli occupation forces on Palestinians’ homes and vehicles in the town of Deir Ballut, west of Salfit.

Sources added that the Israeli settlers’ attack caused damage to 15 vehicles owned by Palestinain residents in the town of Deir Ballut.

Israeli settlers’ attacks have escalated recently against the Palestinian citizens and their lands including attacking the Palestinian shepherds, preventing them from reaching their lands.

Since the beginning of 2023, Israeli settlers have carried out more than 290 attacks on Palestinians and their own property in the occupied West Bank, 230 of which caused property damage, and 60 of them caused injuries to Palestinian residents, according to Palestinian figures.

More than 650,000 colonial settlers were distributed among 164 illegal settlements and 124 outposts built on the stolen lands of occuiped West Bank and Jerusalem. 

The West Bank and Jerusalem lands are occupied territories based on International law due to this all Israeli settlement-building activities there are illegal.