Two Palestinians Monday evening sustained injuries in a settler attack near Duma village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, according to an activist. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors Israeli settlements in the northern West Bank, said that Israeli supremacist settlers hurled stones at Palestinian vehicles travelling on the outskirts of the village, smashing the windshields of a vehicle and injuring two of the passengers. The casualties, both residents of Qusra village, southeast of Nablus, were treated at the scene. Meanehile, another group of settlers chased a Palestinian vehicle close to Jamma’in town, southwest of Nablus, and spewed pepper spray in the faces of the passengers, causing painful burning of the eyes. Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities. Settler violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others. There are over 700,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Source: En – Palestine news & Information Agency – WAFA