Above photo: Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank. WAFA.
The UN has documented 1,000 settler attacks in the occupied West Bank since the start of Operation Al-Aqsa Flood and Israel’s brutal war on the Gaza Strip.
A Palestinian citizen and several foreign activists, including US citizens, were injured on 21 July following an assault by Israeli Jewish settlers in the town of Qusra, located south of the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
WAFA news agency reported that, according to local sources, a group of settlers attacked the activists with batons and stones while they were working to plow and clear weeds from village lands.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said its medics transferred two US citizens to the hospital after they were assaulted.
Jewish settlers have become increasingly bold in confiscating Palestinian land and establishing farming outposts, which are illegal not only under international law but even under Israeli law.
The Associated Press (AP) noted on 19 July that the UN has documented 1,000 settler attacks in the West Bank in the nine months since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, averaging four attacks per day.
Settlers have killed 10 Palestinians during that time, including two children, and injured 234 people, according to the non-profit group AIDA, the AP added.
Several international activists were injured this morning following an assault by Israeli settlers in the town of Qusra, south of Nablus. pic.twitter.com/N0qj6kE4iH
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) July 21, 2024
At least 578 Palestinians have since been killed and nearly 5,400 others injured by Israeli army fire in the occupied West Bank, according to the Health Ministry.
On Friday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) issued an advisory opinion ruling that Israel’s decades-long occupation of Palestinian land is “unlawful” and should be brought to an end “as rapidly as possible.”