Anna Colomé

A settler militia brutally attacked Israeli activists today (Friday) in the village of Qusra in the Nablus District, West Bank. Two were injured and hospitalized in moderate condition. The unrestrained attacks carried out by settlers throughout the West Bank constitute state violence. They are carried out with full backing, participation, and assistance from state authorities, as part of a strategy of Israel’s apartheid regime seeking to advance and complete the takeover of Palestinian land. In a video documenting the beginning of the attack, filmed by one of the activists, the assailants can be seen arriving in a Polaris Ranger all terrain vehicle, which was most likely provided to them by the Israeli government. Dozens of such vehicles have been distributed over the past two years by the Ministry of Settlement to outposts across the West Bank, and settlers regularly use them as vehicles that enable rapid access to carry out violent attacks almost anywhere.