RAMALLAH (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Groups of Israeli settlers, under the protection of Israeli occupation army forces (IOF), attacked on Thursday Palestinian citizens and their properties across the West Bank.
Local sources reported that a group of settlers assaulted the Southern Electricity Company’s maintenance workers, as the IOF seized a crane machine and other equipment for the company.
The media activist, Osama Makhmara, said the settlers, under the protection of the IOF, attacked the company’s workers, in the company’s Yatta branch, while they were maintaining the electricity network in the Wadi al-Rukhaim community, located in the southeastern side of Yatta. They damaged the company’s vehicles, while the IOF seized its crane and other equipment, he added.
A few days ago, Israeli settlers attacked the electricity network feeding the community and cut a number of electricity poles.
Meanwhile, settlers of Shavei Shomron settlement assaulted citizens’ vehicles near Al-Naqoura village, northwest of Nablus.
Local sources said that a group of settlers threw stones at Palestinian vehicles near the entrance of Al-Naqoura village, and on the road between Jenin and Nablus.
In Tulkarem, another group of settlers stormed the archaeological site of Banat Ya’qub located in the southwestern part of the Ertah neighborhood, south of the city, under heavy protection of the IOF.
Local sources reported that the settlers wandered inside the archaeological site, under tight measures imposed by the IOF to secure their incursion, at a time when the occupation army continues to escalate its aggression against Tulkarem city and its refugee camps.
Israeli settlers have recently intensified their incursions into historical and archaeological sites in the West Bank, amid an escalation of their attacks on citizens and their property.
According to data from the Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority, settlers carried out 230 attacks last month, concentrated in Nablus and Al-Khalil governorates with 43 attacks each, Ramallah with 38 attacks, and Jerusalem with 25 attacks.
