Hordes of extremist Jewish settlers launched on Wednesday evening different attacks on Palestinian citizens vehicles and property in the occupied West Bank.
According to local sources a group of settlers attacked Palestinian cars at the Mahkama checkpoint near the illegal settlement of Beit El in the north of Bireh City.
Eyewitnesses said that settlers hurled rocks at Palestinian cars traveling on the road leading to the checkpoint damaging some of them.
Later the settlers closed the checkpoint in both directions of the road forcing Palestinian drivers to use alternative routes the eyewitnesses added.
In southern Nablus settlers burned a Palestinian-owned car and attacked a home in Burin village.
Local official Ghassan Daghlas explained that a number of settlers from the illegal settlement of Yitzhar attacked the house of Umm Ayman Sufan in southern Burin damaged its windows and torched a parked car belonging to the homeowner’s son.
Daghlas added that the settlers tried to set fire to Sufan’s house but local residents rushed to the area and fended them off.
In southern Bethlehem another horde of settlers attacked Palestinian homes in the hamlet of Beit Sakariya which is located in the middle of the illegal Etzion settlement bloc.
In a separate incident a crew from the Israeli nature authority escorted by soldiers stormed the Umm al-Abar area in the northern Jordan Valley and seized 12 cows belonging to Palestinian citizens from the family of Masa’eid.
