An-Najah News - Settler violence and attacks against Palestinian villagers and vehicles spread across north West Bank in the last few days and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli occupation police and army.

Palestinian villagers and residents of the village of Burqa, north of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, yesterday fended off an attack by hardcore Israeli settlers which targeted the village, according to a local source.

Ghassan Daghlas, an official in charge of monitoring Israeli settlement activities in the north West Bank, said a group of settlers who were performing a provocative tour of the area attempted to attack the village, but were confronted by local residents who forced them to leave.

Meanwhile, Daghlas said other groups of settlers attacked with stones several Palestinian vehicles passing at Nablus-Ramallah and Qalqilia-Nablus roads, but said no injuries were reported.

Settlers attacked Saturday night Palestinian vehicles in front of the entrance to "Kedumim" settlement, which is built on citizens' lands between the cities of Nablus and Qalqilya, and also near the so-called Shilo Street between the cities of Ramallah and Nablus, passing through to the Mikhmas roundabout northeast of Jerusalem. They also attacked Palestinian vehicles at the Etzion roundabout north of Hebron.

Groups of settlers gathered in large numbers at the Za'tara checkpoint and near the settlement of Shiloh, Ariel Junction and Qaddumim Junction, attacking Palestinian cars without interference from the occupation army.