Colonial Israeli settlers launched on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning, June 21, 2023, violent attacks against several Palestinian cities across the occupied West Bank, injuring 36 Palestinians.
In Nablus, Ghassan Daghlas, the settlement affairs official in the northern West Bank, stated that Israeli settlers damaged 140 Palestinian vehicles.
Daghlas added settler groups spread across the main streets under IOF protection and attacked Palestinian vehicles by throwing stones and breaking their windows.
He noted that the attacks focused on the Za’atara checkpoint, as well as the towns of Sawiya, Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya, Salman al-Farsi roundabout in Huwara, and Deir Sharaf roundabout.
Daghlas said that the settlers burned a car wash in the village of Al-Lubban Al-Sharqiya and set fire to wheat fields in the town.
Nablus injuries
The Red Crescent dealt with 36 cases of gas inhalation during clashes with the occupation and settlers in Huwara.
An ambulance was partially burned due to gas canisters fired by IOF and another was damaged. and two houses were also evacuated in the Huwara town.
Israeli settlers also injured a Palestinian child after attacking a vehicle near Salman al-Farsi roundabout in Huwara.
Additionally, a 13-year-old child suffered a leg fracture after falling while being chased by soldiers near the town of Azmout.
An Israeli jeep hit a 15-year-old Palestinian child in the village of Al-Nassariya, and he was transferred to Rafidia Hospital for treatment.
According to media sources, a group of settlers attacked several vehicles and shattered their windows on the eastern “Corbat Al-Lubban” road at the Ma’ale Levona settlement junction.
In Bethlehem, dozens of settlers gathered near the junction of the Tekoa settlement amidst concerns that they would carry out attacks on the vehicles of Palestinian citizens.
Supported by IOF
As for the occupation forces, they closed the main and only entrance to the village of Marah Rabah using military jeeps, preventing entry into or exit from the village.
According to the same sources, the occupation forces set up a military checkpoint at the southern entrance of the town of Al-Khader and another checkpoint in the town of Jinsafut to the east.
In Ramallah, settlers attacked vehicles of Palestinian citizens on a bypass road near the town of Sinjil and at the entrance to the town of Turmus Ayya.
Settlers, protected by IOF, also gathered on the road in the northeast of Ramallah and attacked vehicles of citizens with stones.
In Jericho, settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles with stones on the road between Jericho and Ramallah and Al-Bireh governorates, causing damage to several vehicles.
In Salfit, a number of settlers gathered under the protection of the occupation forces at the entrance to the town of Kafr ad-Dik in the western part of the governorate, closing its entrance and preventing Palestinian vehicles from passing by.
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