Israeli settlers assault Palestinian villages, set automobiles on fireplace and injure a number of residents within the West Financial institution.
Israeli settlers have set automobiles and properties on fireplace below the safety of Israeli forces whereas additionally injuring a number of Palestinians throughout the occupied West Financial institution.
Jalal Bashir, head of Jinasfut village council, was quoted as saying by Wafa information company on Monday night that the assaults came about within the villages of Jinasfut and Funduq, east of Qalqilya.
He added that dozens of Israeli settlers raided Jinasfut and set fireplace to a few houses, a nursery and a workshop. The settlers additionally set a number of automobiles owned by Palestinian residents ablaze.
One Palestinian sustained a head harm whereas making an attempt to guard his house. A number of others had been present process therapy after inhaling tear fuel fired by Israeli troopers.
Within the southern West Financial institution, Israeli settlers additionally stormed a Palestinian house within the Masafer Yatta space. Dozens of settlers attacked Palestinian automobiles with stones south of Hebron, damaging a number of of them.
Yesh Din, which displays human rights within the occupied Palestinian territory, shared video clips displaying Palestinian-owned automobiles and a constructing in flames from earlier settler assaults.
#Ceasefire? Not within the West Financial institution
Tonight, dozens of settlers are attacking Palestinian villages throughout the West Financial institution.
Within the village of Sinjil – Settlers set fireplace to 2 houses and at the least 4 automobiles.
Within the village of Ein Siniya – Settlers attacked and set fireplace to houses.
In… pic.twitter.com/nZ24wiEK5B— Yesh Din English (@Yesh_Din) January 19, 2025
In response to the group, settlers set two Palestinian houses on fireplace and torched at the least 4 automobiles in Sinjil village, positioned northeast of Ramallah. In Ein Siniya village, settlers attacked and set fireplace to houses, north of Ramallah. It added that settlers attacked and broken Palestinian-owned property in Turmus Aya, northeast of Ramallah, and likewise threw stones at automobiles on Route 60, close to al-Lubban Asharqiya, south of Nablus.
The assaults by Israeli settlers come as US President Donald Trump signed an order on Monday to reverse US sanctions on them within the occupied West Financial institution. The Biden administration described them as a part of the “extremist settlement motion”.
The Workplace of the UN Excessive Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) in Palestine additionally expressed alarm on the “wave of renewed violence” by Israeli settlers and armed forces within the occupied West Financial institution.
“The UN Human Rights Workplace is alarmed by a wave of renewed violence perpetrated by settlers and Israeli safety forces within the Occupied West Financial institution, coinciding with the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire settlement,” it mentioned in an announcement.
.@OHCHR_Palestine is alarmed by a wave of renewed violence perpetrated by settlers and Israeli safety forces within the Occupied #WestBank, coinciding with the implementation of the Gaza ceasefire settlement and the discharge of hostages and detainees. This has been accompanied by…
— UN Human Rights Palestine (@OHCHR_Palestine) January 20, 2025
The OHCHR additionally mentioned the violence was accompanied by bolstered restrictions on Palestinians’ freedom of motion, together with the closure of checkpoints and set up of latest gates, leading to total communities being locked in.
Highlighting a number of latest settler assaults on Palestinian villages in addition to Monday’s raid in a number of West Financial institution cities by Israeli forces, which killed a Palestinian teenager, the OHCHR additionally mentioned it was involved about Israel’s plans to increase and enhance operations within the Palestinian territory.
