Dozens of Israeli settlers set fire to houses and cars in a village in the occupied West Bank, and the Palestinian Health Ministry said at least one person died.
The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said settlers, some wearing masks, attacked the village of Geit near the town of Nablus on Thursday night, throwing rocks and firebombs.
The Palestinian Ministry of Health said a local villager in his early 20s was killed and another was seriously injured in the chest. The Israel Defense Forces said it was reviewing reports of the deaths.
Israeli political leaders condemned the attack and promised to punish those responsible. The Israel Defense Forces said an Israeli national was detained in Jit.
Footage emerged on social media purportedly showing Jeet’s house and vehicle being set on fire on Thursday night.
Thick smoke could be seen rising over the village.
“Those responsible for any criminal acts will be caught and prosecuted,” Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office said in a statement.
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Herzog added that “law enforcement officials must take immediate action” to bring those responsible to justice.
The Israel Defense Forces said in a statement that its troops deployed to the village “within minutes” of reports of violence and fired into the air to disperse the crowd. The attacker was subsequently removed from the Jit.
The IDF added that a joint investigation was launched by the Israeli army, the Israeli security agency Shin Bet and the Israeli police following the “serious incident”.
The United States says settler attacks are “unacceptable and must stop”.
A spokesman for the White House National Security Council said: “Israeli authorities must take steps to protect all communities from harm, including intervening to stop such violence and holding all perpetrators of such violence accountable.”
Palestinians often accuse Israeli security forces of allowing violent settler groups to attack their villages.
According to OCHA (United Nations Office of Humanitarian Affairs) – Settlers have launched more than 1,000 attacks on Palestinians since October, At least 1,390 people have been displaced, including 660 children.
The attacks are often accompanied by deadly violence. OCHA recorded 107 incidents resulting in Palestinian casualties and 859 incidents resulting in damage to Palestinian property.
International attention has been focused on the ongoing Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, but the scale of settler violence has prompted the United States, the European Union and the United Kingdom to impose sanctions on some settler leaders and, for the first time, target entire settler outposts stand.
