Illegal Israeli colonizers rammed a Palestinian young man with their vehicle, on Thursday night, after storming the northern West Bank city of Nablus.
Media sources reported that illegal settlers infiltrated the eastern area of Nablus city on Thursday night, in two vehicles, before ramming a young man with their vehicle, while he was walking on Amman Street in the eastern part of the city.
The sources added that the young man sustained fractures in both legs as a result of the car-ramming attack; he was transported to the hospital by local medics.
After running over the young man, the colonizers crashed one of their vehicles and fled the city on foot, before occupation forces arrested the settlers and seized their vehicle.
In a statement, the occupation army said that its forces arrested “settlers who deliberately entered Nablus without a permit, ran over a Palestinian, and fled.”
The army added that “the vehicle was seized and will be handed over to the Civil Administration, and the Israeli army forces arrested a number of Israelis who were transferred to the Israeli police to take over the matter.”
On Thursday, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates denounced the “escalating campaign of organized terror by illegal paramilitary Israeli colonizers against Palestinian civilians,” which involve assault, arson, destruction of agricultural lands, and the uprooting of trees.
The Ministry added that these settler crimes constitute “state-organized terrorism, carried out under direct protection of Israeli occupation forces,” for which the Israeli government is fully responsible.
Addressing the United Nations Security Council, on Friday, the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres condemned the escalating settler violence in the occupied West Bank.
Guterres stressed that Palestinians in the West Bank face escalating Israeli settler violence, land seizures, demolitions and intensified movement restrictions amid a rapidly deteriorating situation.
He stated that “International law – including international humanitarian law and international human rights law — must be upheld across the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.”
