Israeli settlers continue Ramallah attacks

Israeli settlers’ attacks on occupied West Bank governorates have recently escalated, with the most recent assault seeing a Palestinian vehicle being burned to the ground. A group of settlers burned a Palestinian vehicle in the agricultural suburb on dawn Wednesday near the settlement of Beit El, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. The settlers had written racist slogans in Hebrew such as "revenge from the Arabs" and "Death for the Arabs", according to Palestinian sources. The sources said that a large number of Israeli security forces arrived at the scene to investigate the attacks. On Tuesday, two children were injured, as they suffered from fractures as result of the settlers' attacks on a house in Al-Laban village near Nablus city. An official settlement file in the northern West Bank, Ghassan Douglas told Arabstoday that a number of settlers attacked Majed Daraghmeh’s house, as they were trying to take a water spring adjacent to his home. The assault led to two of his children, 9 and 3 years old, being fractured. Israeli occupation forces later arrested the owner of the house and his son Jalal, according to Douglas. In the meantime, settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles on the street of Nablus-Ramallah, threw stones and smashed the glass of a number of vehicles.  Israeli forces handed notices to demolish 27 houses in the village of Zanota, while burning three vehicles in the town of Sair north of the city. The coordinator of the National People's Committees in the town of Yatta, east of Hebron, Ratab Jabbour told Arabstoday that the so-called Civil Administration and the Israeli occupation forces handed over a number of notices to the families living in the village of Zanota, in order to demolish the houses. The settlers burned Tuesday three vehicles in the town of Seir. The vehicles belonged to Mohammed Ayash Farroukh, and Mehdi Amin Farroukh, Zain Farroukh. A cartographer and settlement expert in the southern West Bank, Abdul Hadi Hantash, denounced in an interview with Arabstoday, the continuous attacks by the civil administration, the occupation forces and settlers on the Palestinians. Hantash said the attacks completed the settlement schemes of displacement carried out by the Israeli government. He pointed out that the residents of Susiya handed the Israeli Supreme Court two hundred complaints over the past year in an attempt to prevent the occupation authorities from implementing its plans of displacing the Palestinians, However, the court rejected these complaints, issued six military demolition orders, and carried out fifty-eight demolitions throughout the year. In Jericho on Tuesday, Israeli bulldozers reportedly demolished the walls of four houses are built of stone, and handed notifications to others to demolish their houses. The houses that were demolished belonged to Suleiman El Taweel, Faisal Hammad, Ehab Alaqraaan, and Rafat Alragby. Notices were served to Ismail El Taweel. Jericho governor Majed Fityani in a statement that Israeli actions escalated its occupation policy towards the Jordan Valley to displace the citizens eventually. Fityani pointed out that the occupation authorities handed notice during Eid al-Fitr holiday to demolish 3000 acres planted with palm trees in the governorate.