Jewish Settlers Block West Bank Road, Attack Palestinian Cars

July 22, 2020 Blog, News
Illegal Jewish settlers block the road and attack Palestinian cars with stones in West Bank. (Photo: via Twitter)

Jewish settlers today blocked a main road in northern West Bank and attacked Palestinian vehicles, according to the Palestinian news agency WAFA.

Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors Israeli settlement activities in the north of the West Bank, told WAFA that illegal Jewish settlers blocked the road and attacked Palestinian cars with stones, causing damage to some and threatening the life of their occupants.

Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.

“Jewish settler violence should not be analyzed separately from the violence meted out by the Israeli army, but seen within the larger context of the violent Zionist ideology that governs Israeli society entirely,” wrote Palestinian author and editor of The Palestine Chronicle, Ramzy Baroud.

“Settler violence has long since become part of Palestinians’ daily life under occupation,” according to the Human Rights Group B’tselem. “Israeli security forces enable these actions, which result in Palestinian casualties – injuries and fatalities – as well as damage to land and property. In some cases, they even serve as an armed escort, or even join in the attacks”.

Between 500,000 and 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law.

(Palestine Chronicle, WAFA, Social Media)

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