A year-and-a-half female Palestinian infant was terrified and sustained injuries on Friday evening in an attack carried out by colonial Israeli settlers on her family’s car in the village of Usarin, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.
Local sources reported that a group of extremist Israeli settlers hurled stones yesterday at Palestinian vehicles near the village, injuring the 18-month-old infant while she was inside her family’s car along with her parents.
Other vehicles also sustained damages in the attack.
There has been a sharp spike in settler violence against Palestinians and their properties in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The violent acts include beating, throwing stones, issuing threats, torching fields, destroying trees and crops, stealing crops, using live fire, damaging homes and cars, slashing tires, and painting anti-Arab slogans.
There are 280 illegal settlements in the West Bank, which are home to more than 440,000 Israeli settlers.
In the first half of 2021, 416 anti-Palestinian incidents perpetrated by extremist Israeli settlers were reported – more than double the figure for the first half of 2020 and more than all of 2019.
Of the 416 incidents reported between January and June of 2021, there were approximately 139 incidents of vandalism, stone-throwing, assaults, and so-called price-tag incidents.
