Armed Israeli settlers attack ambulance moving patient, injure Palestinian mother in Nablus
Nablus (QNN)- Extremist Israeli settlers attacked, last night, an ambulance at Zaatara military checkpoint, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, while moving a Palestinian patient in an urgent condition to a hospital in Ramallah.
The Palestinian Health Ministry said the settlers, who have been freely rampaging in the West Bank in the past two days, attacked the ambulance while moving a 12-year-old Palestinian girl from Jenin Governmental Hospital to the ICU at Ramallah’s H-Clinic.
The settlers’ attack caused damage to the ambulance as they smashed the ambulance windshield, and the girl’s mother got injured as she was accompanying her child.
Israeli settlers attacked, last night, an ambulance at Zaatara military checkpoint, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, while moving a Palestinian child in an urgent condition to a hospital in Ramallah, causing damage to the ambulance and injuring the child’s mother. pic.twitter.com/H7u5kbdVPp
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Since Sunday evening, southern areas of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus have been under Israeli settlers’ attacks, including towns of Huwwara, Burin, and Asira al-Qabaliyya.
Israeli settlers rampaged through the towns in the area on Sunday evening in revenge attacks after two Israeli settlers were killed, burning and attacking Palestinian houses and properties for hours.
At least one Palestinian was killed and about 400 wounded in the attacks, Palestinian health officials said.
Sameh Hamdullah Aktech, 37, was shot dead in Za’tara town near Nablus. The Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) said its staff treated someone for stabbing wounds and at least two others suffered head injuries.
Houses, shops, vehicles and agricultural land were set ablaze by settlers who roamed the streets of several Palestinian towns, mainly near Nablus.
The PRCS said at least 35 homes were completely burned down and 40 others were partially damaged. More than 100 cars were burnt or destroyed, it added.
On Sunday, the settlers committed about 300 violations against Palestinians and their properties in towns of Huwwara, Burin, and Asira al-Qabaliyya, Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, noted on Monday.
The shooting operation which took place on Sunday afternoon and resulted in the killing of the two settlers in Huwwara town was carried out by a Palestinian man in response to Israel’s last week bloody massacre in Nablus where Israeli occupation forces killed 11 Palestinians in a deadly raid.
