PICTURES & VIDEO| Israeli settlers attack Palestinian school in Nablus, set fire to classroom
Nablus (QNN)- Extremist Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian school and set fire to a classroom on Saturday night in the village of Urif, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
Local sources said a group of extremist Israeli settlers from the nearby illegal Israeli settlement of Yitzhar sneaked last night into the village of Urif, attacked a Palestinian school and set a classroom on fire.
The settlers also smashed some of the school windows and vandalized the equipment at the school.
This is how a school looked like this morning after an arson attack last night by a mob of Israeli settlers in the village of Urif, south of Nablus. pic.twitter.com/W6Im6xEUhC
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) October 16, 2022
Media coverage| This is how a school looked like this morning after an arson attack last night by a mob of Israeli settlers in the village of Urif, south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank. pic.twitter.com/wk7KEV2C0b
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) October 16, 2022
The incident comes amid a noticeable increase in attacks by extremist Israeli settlers against Nablus’s villages and towns in the past days. Armed with stones, sticks and guns, masked settlers attacked a amusement park, Palestinian homes, and businesses on the main roads. They threw rocks at passing cars and smashed up shops along the main road.
There has been a sharp spike in settler violence against Palestinians and their properties in the occupied Palestinian territories.
The violent acts include beating, throwing stones, issuing threats, torching fields, destroying trees and crops, stealing crops, using live fire, damaging homes and cars, slashing tyres and painting anti-Arab slogans.
There are 280 illegal settlements in the West Bank, which are home to more than 440,000 Israeli settlers.
In the first half of 2021, 416 anti-Palestinian incidents perpetrated by extremist Israeli settlers were reported – more than double the figure for the first half of 2020 and more than all of 2019.
Of the 416 incidents reported between January and June of 2021, there were approximately 139 incidents of vandalism, stone-throwing, assaults and so-called price-tag incidents
