JERUSALEM: Israeli President Isaac Herzog on Thursday (Aug 16) condemned a “pogrom” after a Jewish settler attack on a village in the occupied West Bank that the Palestinian Authority said killed one Palestinian and wounded another.
Mahmoud Abdel Qader Sadda, 23, “was martyred, and a citizen was critically injured in the chest by settlers’ bullets” in the village of Jit, west of Nablus, a Palestinian health ministry statement said.
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa, citing local sources, said “armed colonists” attacked the western part of the village, “setting several vehicles ablaze”.
The Israeli military said “dozens of Israeli civilians, some of them masked”, entered Jit and “set fire to vehicles and structures in the area, hurled rocks and Molotov cocktails”.
One Israeli was taken for questioning, said a military statement, which did not confirm the Palestinian man’s death.
“I strongly condemn this evening’s pogrom in Samaria,” Herzog wrote on X, formerly Twitter, using the name of the biblical province corresponding to the northern West Bank.
“This is an extreme minority that harms the law-abiding settler population and the settlement as a whole and the name and position of Israel in the world during a particularly sensitive and difficult period,” he added.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “takes seriously the riots that took place this evening”, according to a statement from his office.
“Those responsible for any criminal act will be caught and prosecuted,” the statement said.
Source: CNA
