Suspicious Israeli settlers damaged several vehicles belonging to Palestinian workers on the West Bank on Tuesday in broad daylight in an incident captured by security cameras.
This appeared to be the latest in a series of so-called “price tag” attacks, in which Israeli nationalists attack Palestinians and destroy their property in response to Palestinian militant attacks. or deliberate efforts by Israeli authorities to restrict settlement activity.
Photographs carried by Israeli public broadcaster Kan showed around 10 people, all wearing hoods and strange faces, punching the tires and smashing the windows of parked cars near the Bank’s settlement. West in Shiloh.
Police spokesman Shlomit Bakshi said at least six vehicles were damaged and officials have launched an investigation into the incident. No suspicion was caught.
She said earlier in the day that the military and police forces uncovered a structure built without permission from a nearby illegal settlement center.
Israeli media identified the site as Alei Ayin, a small, isolated collection of unauthorized buildings by the Israeli government. Peace Now, an Israeli anti-settlement watchdog, said the Alei Ayin illegal center was established in 2020 near the Shiloh settlement and the nearby Palestinian town of Turmus Aya.
Brian Reeves, who is now clear, said that there has been a sharp rise in the violence of settlers against Palestinians in recent months.
Israel captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan in the Six Day War of 1967 and began settling the area shortly afterwards. More than 600,000 Israelis now live in cities in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The majority of the international community considers Israeli settlements to be illegal and an obstacle to peace with the Palestinians, who seek the West Bank and East Jerusalem as part of a state or -dependent in the future.