United States says “condemning criminal violence” in the West Bank

“ Cwe place the acts of criminal violence committed by any party in the West Bank and support the opening of appropriate investigations and judicial proceedings against those responsible ", said to the French news agency AFP a spokesman of the State Department, questioned about this attack in the village of Jalud.

More than 100 Israeli settlers today attacked a village in the north of the occupied West Bank to prevent the return of a Palestinian family, injuring three police officers and motivating rare convictions of Israeli political leaders.

This attack and other incidents in the West Bank today take place in a context in which international criticism is multiplying in the face of the numerous violence committed by settlers, whom Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sought to minimize last week at the UN General Assembly.

Today's attack took place as the Israeli army tried to escort a Palestinian family to their home in the village of Jalud, about thirty kilometres north of Ramallah.

The family had been forced to leave the site two months earlier, following attacks by settlers, and failed to return home.

Over 100 Israeli aggressors were in the Jalud area during the night, Israel’s army reported in a communiqué that intervened with the border police to disperse them.

The settlers blocked roads, burned tires and threw stones at the security forces, while setting fire to Palestinian buildings and vehicles in the village, the army specified.

“Following the clashes, three Israeli border police officers suffered minor injuries and a security force vehicle was damaged,” he added, indicating that one suspect and two minors were arrested.