Violent Acts by Israeli Settlers against Palestinians amid Israeli Military Forces Silence
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Israeli settlers ,Sunday , stole olive pickings from scores of trees of Palestinian farmers from the occupied West Bank districts of Ramallah and Nablus.Ghassan Daghlas, scores of Israeli settlers stormed Palestinian lands in Ramallah and Nablus under protection of armed Israeli forces, and stole olives from scores of Palestinian trees, according to an official who monitors settlements activity in the northern West Bank .
Israeli settlers stole the pickings of over 65 olive trees in the Nablus-area village of al-Sawiyeh and the Ramallah-area village of al-Janiyeh, he added.
Meantime, NGO Rabbis For Human Rights (RHR) issued a statement saying that the settlers, from the illegal Zayit Raanan outpost, were held by Israeli security forces “following the swift intervention of the head of the field department of Rabbis for Human Rights, Zakaria Sadah, who told the security forces.”In another incident, also on Sunday, Palestinian farmers from the Nablus-area village of Qaryut were attacked by settlers.
RHR said that Israeli security forces arrived at the scene and apprehended the assailants. “It is a relatively unusual day where the security forces are able to hold extremist Israeli lawbreakers in two incidents against West Bank Palestinians,” RHR said, adding that “violations against Palestinian farmers are not likely addressed by the Israeli security and/or law enforcement authorities.”
The Palestinian government doesn’t have any jurisdiction over Israelis in the West Bank, and violent acts carried out by Israeli settlers often occur in the presence of Israeli military forces who rarely act to protect Palestinian residents.
The majority of settler attacks against Palestinians are met with impunity, with Israelis rarely facing consequences for such offensives.
Only 1.9 percent of complaints submitted by Palestinians against Israeli settler offensives result in a conviction, while 95.6 percent of investigations of damage to olive trees are closed due to failures of Israeli police, according to the Israeli human rights group Yesh Din.
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