US EditionMasked Israeli settlers torch property, injure four Palestinians, army says
- On Tuesday , dozens of masked Israeli settlers launched an arson attack in the occupied West Bank, damaging Beit Lid, Deir Sharaf and the Al-Juneidi dairy factory and injuring four Palestinians.
- Since mid-October, settler violence has surged during the olive harvest season, with U.N. agencies reporting at least 264 attacks in October, the highest monthly tally recorded.
- The Israel Defense Forces said it dispatched soldiers to the area, security forces used riot dispersal means, and Israeli police arrested four Israeli suspects for questioning.
- Footage obtained by CNN shows a cargo truck bearing the Al-Juneidi dairy factory's logo completely torched with thick black smoke, while Palestinian civil defence arrived about an hour later and the Palestinian Red Crescent treated three people beaten.
- The West Bank hosts 2.7 million Palestinians and around half a million Israeli settlers, while successive Israeli governments have expanded settlements that the United Nations and most countries consider illegal.
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Israeli soldiers intervened on Tuesday in two villages near Nablus, where dozens of masked settlers attacked Palestinians and burned vehicles and buildings. Israeli police reported four arrests.
Masked Israeli Settlers Attack 2 Palestinian Villages in the West Bank
JERUSALEM (AP) — Dozens of masked Israeli settlers attacked a pair of Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday, setting fire to vehicles and other property before clashing with Israeli soldiers sent to halt the rampage, Israeli and Palestinian officials said.
Israeli settlers attack 2 occupied West Bank villages as violence against Palestinians surges
Masked Israeli settlers hurled stones and torched dairy trucks, farmland and Bedouin structures, injuring four people on Tuesday in the latest in a surge of settler attacks in the occupied West Bank.
Masked Israeli settlers torch property, injure four Palestinians, army says
Masked Israeli settlers hurled stones and torched dairy trucks, farmland and Bedouin structures, injuring four people on Tuesday in the latest in a surge of settler attacks in the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military and a Palestinian official said.
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