Israeli settlers assault Palestinian villages, set autos on hearth and injure a number of residents within the West Financial institution.
Israeli settlers have set autos and properties on hearth underneath the safety of Israeli forces whereas additionally injuring at the very least 21 Palestinians throughout the occupied West Financial institution.
Jalal Bashir, head of Jinasfut village council, was quoted as saying by Wafa information company on Monday night that the assaults happened within the villages of Jinasfut and Funduq, east of Qalqilya.
He added that dozens of Israeli settlers raided Jinasfut and set hearth to 3 properties, a nursery and a workshop. The settlers additionally set a number of autos owned by Palestinian residents ablaze.
One Palestinian sustained a head harm whereas attempting to guard his residence. A number of others have been present process therapy after inhaling tear gasoline fired by Israeli troopers.
The Palestinian Purple Crescent Society stated its medical groups handled these injured by the settlers in Jinsafut and Fanduq, including that the victims suffered bruises as they have been crushed by the settlers.
Within the southern West Financial institution, Israeli settlers additionally stormed a Palestinian residence within the Masafer Yatta space. Dozens of settlers attacked Palestinian autos with stones south of Hebron, damaging a number of of them.
Yesh Din, which screens human rights within the occupied Palestinian territory, shared video clips displaying Palestinian-owned autos and a constructing in flames from earlier settler assaults.
#Ceasefire? Not within the West Financial institution
Tonight, dozens of settlers are attacking Palestinian villages throughout the West Financial institution.
Within the village of Sinjil – Settlers set hearth to 2 properties and at the very least 4 autos.
Within the village of Ein Siniya – Settlers attacked and set hearth to properties.
In… pic.twitter.com/nZ24wiEK5B— Yesh Din English (@Yesh_Din) January 19, 2025
In keeping with the group, settlers set two Palestinian properties on hearth and torched at the very least 4 autos in Sinjil village, positioned northeast of Ramallah. In Ein Siniya village, settlers attacked and set hearth to properties, north of Ramallah. It added that settlers attacked and broken Palestinian-owned property in Turmus Aya, northeast of Ramallah, and likewise threw stones at autos on Route 60, close to al-Lubban Asharqiya, south of Nablus.
The assaults by Israeli settlers come as US President Donald Trump signed an order on Monday to reverse US sanctions on them within the occupied West Financial institution. The Biden administration described them as a part of the “extremist settlement movement”.
The Workplace of the UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Palestine additionally expressed alarm on the “wave of renewed violence” by Israeli settlers and armed forces within the occupied West Financial institution.
“The UN Human Rights Workplace is alarmed by a wave of renewed violence perpetrated by settlers and Israeli safety forces within the Occupied West Financial institution, coinciding with the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire settlement,” it stated in an announcement.
.@OHCHR_Palestine is alarmed by a wave of renewed violence perpetrated by settlers and Israeli safety forces within the Occupied #WestBank, coinciding with the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire settlement and the discharge of hostages and detainees. This has been accompanied by…
— UN Human Rights Palestine (@OHCHR_Palestine) January 20, 2025
The OHCHR additionally stated the violence was accompanied by strengthened restrictions on Palestinians’ freedom of motion, together with the closure of checkpoints and set up of recent gates, leading to complete communities being locked in.
Highlighting a number of current settler assaults on Palestinian villages in addition to Monday’s raid in a number of West Financial institution cities by Israeli forces, which killed a Palestinian teenager, the OHCHR additionally stated it was involved about Israel’s plans to increase and enhance operations within the Palestinian territory.
