Settler attacks I

News in Brief

Israeli settlers threw petrol bombs at two Palestinian homes on the evening of 21 January, according to the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa.

When local residents in the West Bank village of Burin tried to extinguish the fire, Israeli occupation forces appeared, firing rubber-coated metal bullets and teargas.

While one resident was arrested, no settlers were detained by the security forces.

Groups of settlers attacked Palestinian vehicles with stones and empty bottles on the same day in three other locations in the West Bank, according to a report in al-Monitor.

The attacks happened in al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya, about 16 miles south of Burin, just east of Bethlehem, and in north Hebron, down in the southern part of the West Bank.