The Middle East: Renewed violence in Kusra – settlers entrenched in house
For three weeks now, radical Israeli settlers have been besieging houses in a town in the north of the occupied West Bank. Now there is again settler violence against Palestinians there.
Violence has erupted again in a West Bank village, Kusra, which has been under siege by Israeli settlers for three weeks. The Israeli army reported that dozens of settlers had barricaded themselves in a Palestinian house, where they clashed with Palestinian residents, throwing stones and using pepper spray. Israeli forces intervened, removing the settlers from the house and confiscating their vehicles, which were handed over to the police for investigation.
Palestinian media reported that settlers were protected by soldiers during the attacks, and that several Palestinians were injured by pepper spray. The incident included the burning of nearby Palestinian-owned fields.
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