Settler violence escalates in West Bank, Quds (Jerusalem)

WEST BANK, Oct. 15 (YPA) – Israeli settler violence continued to escalate across the occupied West Bank and Quds (Jerusalem) on Thursday, with settlers attacking Palestinian residents and damaging their property.

According to Palestinian sources, Israeli settler cut electricity poles supplying the Soufan family’s home in the town of Burin, south of Nablus, cutting off the house’s power supply.

Sources added that the settlers cut the electricity poles leading to the family’s home, which is located near the Yitzhar settlement.

They noted that the attack has occurred repeatedly amid continued settler assaults on the house.

In Jenin, Israeli settlers began leveling Palestinian-owned land on Thursday inside the former Sanur military camp, which Israeli forces evacuated in 2005 and which is located on land belonging to the town of Jaba’, south of Jenin.

Palestinian sources reported that a group of settlers , accompanied by a bulldozer, began leveling land in the area adjacent to the road connecting Jaba’ and Sanur, inside the camp previously evacuated by Israeli forces.

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