Israeli Settlers Attack Village in WB
Israeli settlers have attacked the village of Qusra in the north of Israel-occupied West Bank.
The armed settlers attacked the residential area in the village on Saturday afternoon, but were chased away by young people from the village.
They also made an effort to uproot trees belonging to Palestinian farmers in the village.
“The settlers opened live fire in the direction of the villagers, who went out to stop them, but that did not intimidate the youth from protecting their land and the blessed olive trees,” said Abdel Athim Wadi, the head of Qusra village council.
Those injured in the attack were taken to a local hospital for treatment.
One of the injured said the Israeli settlers were throwing stones at one of the houses when “we chased them away with stones and then the Army came and started firing rubber-coated bullets and gas canisters at us.”
Wadi also said there has been a change in the manner of the attacks as they “used to be spontaneous and barbaric, but now the attacks are organized…There seems to be a planned organization of the settlers and their attacks by some unified administration.”
Last month, Israeli officials said they would go ahead with plans to build 6,500 settler units on occupied Palestinian territory, despite the opposition of the United Nations and the international community.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds in 1967.
The UN and most countries consider the Israeli settlements to be illegal because the territories were captured by Israel in the war and are hence subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied lands.
Source: Press TV
They also made an effort to uproot trees belonging to Palestinian farmers in the village.
“The settlers opened live fire in the direction of the villagers, who went out to stop them, but that did not intimidate the youth from protecting their land and the blessed olive trees,” said Abdel Athim Wadi, the head of Qusra village council.
Those injured in the attack were taken to a local hospital for treatment.
One of the injured said the Israeli settlers were throwing stones at one of the houses when “we chased them away with stones and then the Army came and started firing rubber-coated bullets and gas canisters at us.”
Wadi also said there has been a change in the manner of the attacks as they “used to be spontaneous and barbaric, but now the attacks are organized…There seems to be a planned organization of the settlers and their attacks by some unified administration.”
Last month, Israeli officials said they would go ahead with plans to build 6,500 settler units on occupied Palestinian territory, despite the opposition of the United Nations and the international community.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 illegal settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds in 1967.
The UN and most countries consider the Israeli settlements to be illegal because the territories were captured by Israel in the war and are hence subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied lands.
Source: Press TV
