Aysar al-Ais
18 March 2019•Update: 18 March 2019
RAMALLAH, Palestinian
Jewish settlers hurled stones at the homes and vehicles of Palestinian residents in the occupied West Bank on Monday, eyewitnesses said.
The attack took place in Kifl Haris, a Palestinian village in the northern West Bank located six kilometers (3.7 miles) west of the city of Salfit.
The settlers, who also threatened the vehicles’ drivers, caused material damage but no casualties, the eyewitnesses added.
Israeli forces meanwhile erected an iron gate at the entrance to the village of Bruqin west of Salfit following the establishment of an Israeli military checkpoint.
Jewish settlers have cut off roads in the occupied West Bank since Sunday, after a settler and an Israeli soldier were killed and others wounded in a shooting attack in the region.
The Israeli army said a Palestinian had stabbed an Israeli soldier near the Ariel settlement in the northern West Bank on Sunday before opening fire with a rifle on Israelis at a nearby bus station.
Early Monday, Israeli forces raided several homes and shops in Salfit while searching for the suspected shooter.
Roughly 650,000 Israelis live in more than 100 settlements built since 1967, when Israel occupied the West Bank and East Jerusalem.
The Palestinians want these territories, along with the Gaza Strip, for the establishment of a future Palestinian state.
International law views both the West Bank and East Jerusalem as "occupied territories" and considers all Jewish settlement-building activity there illegal.
