JERUSALEM: Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Thursday (Aug 16) condemned a “pogrom” after a Jewish settler assault on a village within the occupied West Financial institution that the Palestinian Authority stated killed one Palestinian and wounded one other.
Mahmoud Abdel Qader Sadda, 23, “was martyred, and a citizen was critically injured within the chest by settlers’ bullets” within the village of Jit, west of Nablus, a Palestinian well being ministry assertion stated.
The official Palestinian information company Wafa, citing native sources, stated “armed colonists” attacked the western a part of the village, “setting a number of autos ablaze”.
The Israeli navy stated “dozens of Israeli civilians, a few of them masked”, entered Jit and “set fireplace to autos and buildings within the space, hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails”.
One Israeli was taken for questioning, stated a navy assertion, which didn’t affirm the Palestinian man’s dying.
“I strongly condemn this night’s pogrom in Samaria,” Herzog wrote on X, previously Twitter, utilizing the title of the biblical province comparable to the northern West Financial institution.
“That is an excessive minority that harms the law-abiding settler inhabitants and the settlement as an entire and the title and place of Israel on this planet throughout a very delicate and tough interval,” he added.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “takes significantly the riots that came about this night”, based on a press release from his workplace.
“These liable for any legal act will probably be caught and prosecuted,” the assertion stated.
