Settlers can engage in such banditry with impunity as Israel is slow in investigating such violence as long as it is directed against the Arab non-Jew population. This type of settler on occupied violence is a common, sad, and humiliating experience.
Jenin – Ma’an – Israeli settlers smashed a Palestinian man’s car in the village of Huwwara, near the West Bank city of Nablus at 9pm Tuesday night.
The driver, thirty-five-year-old Hatim Qash from the village of Birqin, and another passenger survived the attack, in which a group of settlers attacked the car with stones and clubs.
Qash said: “I was on my way back to Jenin, in my taxi. One passenger only was in the car, who is a friend of mine. We were coming from Ramallah. As I came close to Yitzhar settlement, I saw a dim light in the horizon. I thought it was a military checkpoint, and so I slowed down.”
“As I came closer,” he continued, “I became worried, so I dimmed up the car’s front lights. I saw a large number of settlers on the road side who attacked the car with stones, clubs and metal objects.”
He added that after the attackers broke all the car’s windows and smashed the body of the car, he was able to speed up and escape.
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