Israeli settlers attacked \u2060Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank early on Sunday, setting fire to two mosques and scrawling graffiti on buildings, Palestinian officials said.<\/p>\n
The attacks followed an incident on Friday when four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers \u2013 one of them acting as a security coordinator for a nearby Israeli settlement \u2013 were killed when a crowd of Israeli settlers, some armed, approached the Palestinian village of Tal, southwest of Nablus.<\/p>\n
During the incident, villagers came out of their homes to confront the settlers and a \u200cstand-off ensued, with video appearing to show one of the Palestinians grabbing a settler\u2019s weapon. Palestinian local authorities say the settlers provoked the violence. The Israeli military said shots were fired by both sides.<\/p>\n
The incident was the latest in a growing series of clashes involving settlers in which dozens of Palestinians have been killed this year and hundreds wounded, according to figures from the UN and the Palestinian Authority.<\/p>\n
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, facing an election in October, ordered a major security operation against what he described as terrorism against Israeli civilians, reinforcing units in the West Bank and cancelling leave.<\/p>\n
Members of his government, including the far-right finance minister, Bezalel Smotrich, have called for annexation of the West Bank, territory Israel captured in the 1967 Middle East war.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Israeli settlers attacked \u2060Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank early on Sunday, setting fire to two mosques…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":223552,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[64054,1412,64057,37,2412,1189,64055,64056,33464,7888,17077,41972,28890,27233,6905],"class_list":["post-223551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-abdel-azim-wadi","tag-bezalel-smotrich","tag-farid-jiyousi","tag-israel","tag-israeli","tag-jerusalem","tag-kafr-malik","tag-kour","tag-nablus","tag-palestinian","tag-palestinian-authority","tag-qusra","tag-ramallah","tag-tal","tag-west-bank"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/116986828707726458","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=223551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/223551\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=223551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=223551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=223551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}