Tel Aviv, Apri 24, (dpa/GNA) – Several Palestinians were injured overnight, in renewed settler violence in the north of the occupied West Bank, reports said on Wednesday.
Eight Palestinians, including a toddler, were treated, most for smoke inhalation, according to reports including those by the Palestinian news agency WAFA. One person also suffered burns.
Israeli settlers were said to have set fire to cars in a Palestinian village near the city of Nablus and attempted to torch a house.
The Israeli military said soldiers had entered the village but found no suspects. Israeli police have launched an investigation.
“Security forces condemn such incidents in the strongest terms,” the military statement continued.
Chief of the General Staff of the Israeli military Eyal Zamir had, in March described attacks by extremist settlers on Palestinians as “morally and ethically unacceptable.”
However, Israeli security forces have nonetheless been accused of failing to act decisively against such incidents, or even siding with aggressive settlers.
Since the October 7, 2023 Hamas attacks and the ensuing war in Gaza, there has been a marked rise in violence by radical Israeli settlers against Palestinians and their property in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli media have increasingly referred to such attacks as “Jewish terrorism.”
GNA