Several Palestinians have been injured in an Israeli settler attack near Duma village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, an activist says.
Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlements in the northern West Bank, said on Monday that a horde of Israeli settlers hurled stones at Palestinian cars traveling on a road near Duma, the official Palestinian WAFA news agency reported.
Two Palestinians were injured in the attack and the settlers smashed the windshields of their vehicle.
The casualties, both residents of Qusra village, south of Nablus, were treated at the scene.
In another incident, a number of Palestinian passengers suffered eye injuries when Israeli settlers chased their car near Jamma’in town, south of Nablus, and attacked them with pepper spray.
Meanwhile, Israeli troops bulldozed vast tracts of Palestinian-owned land in the south of Qaryut village, south of Nablus, on the same day.
According to Daghlas, seven bulldozers belonging to the Israeli military leveled swaths of land in the west of Qaryut in line with efforts to expand the illegal settlements of Eli and Shilo and connect them with a road.
Israeli soldiers and settlers have been escalating their attacks against Palestinian civilians in the occupied territories, in an attempt to forcibly expel Palestinians from their lands and make way for expanding illegal settlements.
According to human rights groups, acts of violence by Israeli settlers against Palestinians and their property are a daily occurrence throughout the occupied West Bank.
