Extremist Israeli settlers brutally assaulted a Palestinian young man and opened fire at vehicles this afternoon near the town of Qusra, to the south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.

Fo’ad Hasan, a local Palestinian activist, told WAFA that a group of Israeli settlers from the colonial Israeli settlement of Esh Kodesh, illegally built on Palestinian lands near the town, assaulted a Palestinian young man and opened gunfire at Palestinian vehicles passing through Qusra-Jalud road. No injuries were reported.

Israeli settler violence against Palestinians and their property is commonplace in the West Bank, and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.

There are over 650,000 Israeli settlers illegally occupying portions of the West Bank in violation of international law and established norms prohibiting the relocation of the occupying power’s civil population to the land of the occupied.

Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA