Toddler Injured during Settlers’ Attack on Palestinian Neighborhood in West Bank
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – An 18-month-old female Palestinian toddler suffered injuries and was terrified on Friday evening in an attack by Israeli settlers on her family’s car in the village of Osarin, to the south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.
Witnesses said that a group of Israeli settlers hurled stones at Palestinian vehicles near the village, injuring an 18-month-old infant while she was inside her family’s car along with her parents, Wafa News reported.
The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said in a statement that a one-and-a-half-year-old girl suffered injuries as settlers hurled stones at Palestinian cars near the town of Osarin.
Other vehicles sustained damages in the attack.
Also on Friday, clashes were reported between Palestinian youths and Israeli military forces in several areas of the West Bank as part of anti-settlement demonstrations.
Israeli soldiers fired rubber-coated metal bullets and tear gas canisters at Palestinians to quell protests in Beita and Kafr Qaddum towns, as well as the village of Beit Dajan.
Israeli forces and settlers have noticeably been escalating their attacks against Palestinian civilians in the West Bank and other areas, in an attempt to forcibly expel Palestinians from their lands and make way for expanding Illegal Jewish-only settlements.
More than 600,000 Israelis live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds.
Acts of violence and vandalism by Israeli settlers against Palestinians and their property are commonplace in the West Bank and are rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
There are more than 600,000 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.
