A surge in assaults and violence against Palestinians has been running high across the country since the last two days, were two Palestinian brothers, were killed on Saturday night in a car-ramming attack by an illegal Israeli settler near in Nablus.
In details, an illegal Israeli settler killed on Saturday two Palestinian brothers after ramming them with his car near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, before fleeing the scene, Palestinian media reported.
lsraeli settlers murders a Palestinian young man and seriously injures his brother after he intentionally ran them over at Za’tara checkpoint south of Nablus city. pic.twitter.com/bXSJvQM06Z
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) December 17, 2022
Wafa news agency quoted Zakaria Fayala, a spokesperson for Al-Quds Governorate, as saying that Mohammad (28) and Muhannad Mutair (24) had stopped their car near an Israeli military checkpoint south of Nablus to fix a flat tire.
An Israeli settler directly drove his car directly into them, instantly killing Mohammad and seriously injuring Muhannad. The latter was rushed to a hospital for treatment but was pronounced dead shortly after.
The funeral of two Palestinian brothers who ran over by an Israeli settlers’vehicle yesterday in Nablus, north of the West Bank.
Israeli and international media are silent about this terrorist operaton by Israeli settler.#IsraeliCrimes #FreePalestine pic.twitter.com/QlLPvWmwGG— Middle East In The Field (@med_east_field) December 18, 2022
In the same context, the Israeli occupation forces announced plans to demolish the home of Palestinian martyr Muhammad Al-Jabari who carried out the operation in “Kiryat Arba,” in Al-Khalil earlier last October.
Israeli practices of demolition also proceeded in the city of Jericho.
Israeli occupation forces knock down a Palestinian-owned house in the city of Jericho, east of the occupied West Bank, this morning. pic.twitter.com/iMgu7KNdQn
— Quds News Network (@QudsNen) December 19, 2022
Arrests in West bank
Meanwhile, the Israeli occupation army detained this morning 17 Palestinians in raids across the occupied territories, including a 36-year-old woman who is in her fifth month of pregnancy and a mother of five children, according to the Palestinian Prisoner’s Society (PPS) and other sources.
The PPS said the occupation army detained Nihal Mohammad Ribee, after raiding her home in the town of Yatta in the south of the West Bank, despite the fact that she is in her fifth month of pregnancy.
Ribee’s husband, Bilal al-Yatim, and minor son, Baraa, were detained by occupation forces on December 11.
lsraeli occupation forces detain 17 Palestinians in several raids across the West Bank last night. pic.twitter.com/SztQFtLuqV
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) December 19, 2022
Acts of Vandalism in Nablus
Israeli settlers early on Monday set fire to a Palestinian-owned shop and a nursery in the village of al-Sawiya, south of the Nablus.
Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, said that a group of Zionist settlers set fire to the shop and nursery located on the Nablus-Ramallah road causing damage, and even attempted to blow up the whole place using a gas cylinder.
He said this is the sixth time settlers have vandalized the nursery.
lsraeli settlers burn a Palestinian-owned shop south of Nablus. pic.twitter.com/SPp9XzjF6x
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) December 19, 2022
Palestinian Worshippers Denied Access to Al-Aqsa
Elsewhere in occupied Al-Quds, the Israeli occupation forces, early on Monday, restricted entry of Palestinian Muslims into the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in occupied Al-Quds (Jerusalem).
As Palestinians were denied access, the door to the Muslim holy compound was widely opened for the entry of Jewish extremists, according to officials from the Islamic Waqf department, which is in charge of the affairs of the Muslim holy places in occupied East Al-Quds.
lsraeli occupation soldiers force female Palestinian worshippers out of the al-Aqsa Mosque to secure passage for the lsraeli settlers who have stormed into the courtyards since morning. pic.twitter.com/yAM8USAxa9
— TIMES OF GAZA (@Timesofgaza) December 18, 2022
Source: Israeli and Palestinian media (translated and edited by Al-Manar English Website)
