JERUSALEM: Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Thursday (Aug 16) condemned a “pogrom” after a Jewish settler assault on a village within the occupied West Financial institution that the Palestinian Authority mentioned killed one Palestinian and wounded one other.
Mahmoud Abdel Qader Sadda, 23, “was martyred, and a citizen was critically injured within the chest by settlers’ bullets” within the village of Jit, west of Nablus, a Palestinian well being ministry assertion mentioned.
The official Palestinian information company Wafa, citing native sources, mentioned “armed colonists” attacked the western a part of the village, “setting a number of automobiles ablaze”.
The Israeli navy mentioned “dozens of Israeli civilians, a few of them masked”, entered Jit and “set hearth to automobiles and buildings within the space, hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails”.
One Israeli was taken for questioning, mentioned a navy assertion, which didn’t verify the Palestinian man’s demise.
“I strongly condemn this night’s pogrom in Samaria,” Herzog wrote on X, previously Twitter, utilizing the title of the biblical province comparable to the northern West Financial institution.
“That is an excessive minority that harms the law-abiding settler inhabitants and the settlement as an entire and the title and place of Israel on this planet throughout a very delicate and troublesome interval,” he added.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “takes significantly the riots that befell this night”, in response to a press release from his workplace.
“These chargeable for any prison act will likely be caught and prosecuted,” the assertion mentioned.
