Israeli army and settlers invade villages in the centre of the West Bank

ANDal Mugayer, northeast of Ramala, a group of settlers entered Palestinian lands with their cattle, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, the president of the local council, Amin Abu Aliya.

Later, the Israeli troops also entered the village and fired tear gas grenades at the houses, near the dwelling where two youths of the village were mourning killed on Wednesday in another attack by settlers and military.

No injuries were recorded in this new incident.

In Burqa, east of Ramala, settlers caused damage to crops and olive trees, denounced to the Palestinian agency the president of the local council, Sáyel Kanaán.

At night, the Israeli army invaded, without making arrests, the villages of Arura, Abuein, Yalyulia, Ayul, Ein Arik, Kafr Nima, Bilin and Járbaza Bani Hariz, according to security sources and locations cited by Wafa.

The attacks occurred on the same day that two Israeli settlers entered Turmusaya by motorcycle, about 100 metres from the place where Huckabee visited residents with American citizenship, victims of the violence of the settlers.

The ambassador classified this violence as terrorism and called on Israel to ensure the security of the Palestinians in the West Bank.

“They must be warned that there will be serious consequences” from the attacks, Huckabee said in statements collected by the Israeli media, in which the US ambassador attributed to the government of Benjamin Netanyahu the “responsibility to secure the security” of the affected Palestinians.

On the other hand, Huckabee said that only a few hundred people — whom he described as “a small group of looters” — practice the “criminal and terrorist behavior” that the Palestinians of the West Bank suffer almost daily.