Occupied Palestine (QNN)- Israeli minister of public diplomacy justified Sunday’s rampage carried out by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, claiming that Palestinians are “brainwashed murderers who are programmed to seek Jewish blood since age zero.” On Monday, in a video posted on Twitter in English to reach the world, Galit Distel Atbaryan of Netanyahu’s Likud Party said, “Don’t be misled and don’t be naive, it’s not a war over territory. No, it’s a fundamentalist religious war of brainwashed murderers who are programmed to seek Jewish blood since age zero,” referring to Palestinian people. The Israeli minister added, “There are hypocrites who wake up to condemn violence here, only when it suits their narrative of a so-called ‘occupying apartheid country’.” https://twitter.com/qudsnen/status/1630853847588515844?s=46&t=7h13e7t5p5NI9zbPvA00dg On Sunday evening, southern areas of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus were under Israeli settlers’ attacks, including towns of Huwwara, Burin, and Asira al-Qabaliyya. Israeli settlers, flanked by soldiers, rampaged through the towns in the area 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. Before and after the attacks took place, several Israeli politicians seemed to encourage or support the settlers’ actions. Bezalel Smotrich, the finance minister who is responsible for West Bank civil administration, liked a tweet that called for Israeli politicians to show no mercy and that the “village of Huwwara should be erased today”. The tweet on Sunday by David Ben Zion, the deputy head of the Samaria Council that governs illegal settlements in the northern West Bank, has since been deleted. https://twitter.com/QudsNen/status/1629942173310369793?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1629942173310369793%7Ctwgr%5E3c67687e40b5a1484e7536d46ef7f4b95bf3aa1d%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fqudsnen.co%2Flegal-scholars-in-israel-call-for-war-crimes-probe-into-smotrich-remarks%2F Smotrich also took to Twitter while attacks were ongoing to promote a thread that recommended the “collective punishment of the terrorist’s family and environment as an effective and necessary tool in asymmetric warfare”. Har Melech, from the far-right Otzma Yehudit party of National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir, joined settler crowds in Huwwara on Sunday. She called the attacks “the righteous cry of hundreds of Samaria residents who came out to protest and demand security.” Samaria is the name Israelis use to refer to the north of the occupied West Bank. Fogel, also from the Otzma Yehudit party, said on Monday he was pleased with the “deterrence” achieved through the riots. “Huwwara is closed and burned. That is what I want to see,” he said in an interview with army radio.