Settlers Burn Excavator Belonging to Palestinians South of the West Bank

Bethlehem/ Qais Abu Samra/

Israeli settlers, on Thursday, burned an excavator belonging to Palestinians and inscribed slogans in Hebrew south of the occupied West Bank.

Local sources said that settlers stormed the area of "Khala Hajji" east of the town of Beit Fajjar south of Bethlehem, and set fire to an excavator, causing significant material damage to the equipment.

The sources added that the settlers inscribed slogans in Hebrew (whose meaning was not immediately clear) before withdrawing.

The Palestinian town of Beit Fajjar and its surroundings are subjected to repeated assaults by extremist Israeli settlers.

About 750,000 settlers live in hundreds of settlements in the West Bank, including 250,000 in East Jerusalem, and they commit daily assaults against Palestinian citizens with the aim of forcibly displacing them.

In November/ Tishrei the past, settlers committed 621 assaults against Palestinians, their property, and their livelihoods in the West Bank, according to data from the Palestinian Anti-Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission (governmental).

Since the genocide war in Gaza began on October 8, 2023, the Israeli army and settlers in the West Bank have killed at least 1,102 Palestinians, injured about 11,000, in addition to arresting more than 21,000.

Israel is also intensifying its crimes to annex the West Bank to it, especially through demolishing Palestinian homes, displacing them, and expanding settlements, according to Palestinian authorities.

Israel's annexation of the West Bank would end the possibility of implementing the two-state solution (Palestinian and Israeli), as stipulated in resolutions issued by the United Nations.

Israel was established in 1948 on Palestinian lands occupied by armed Zionist gangs that committed massacres and displaced hundreds of thousands of citizens, then Tel Aviv occupied the rest of the lands, and refuses to withdraw and establish a Palestinian state.