Settlers Set Fire to Two Vehicles in Burqa Village East of Ramallah

SadaNews - Early Thursday morning, settlers set fire to two vehicles after infiltrating Burqa village east of Ramallah.

Local sources reported that a group of settlers infiltrated the southern area of the village from one of the settlements established on citizens' lands, setting fire to two vehicles belonging to citizens Yusuf Ahmed Awad, which were completely burned, and a vehicle belonging to citizen Saad Samrin, which was partially damaged by fire.

The occupation forces had stormed the village and arrested young man Muhammad Yusuf Ma'atan (18 years old) after raiding his family's home.

Burqa village has been subjected to continuous and nearly daily attacks by settlers under the protection of the occupation army, while the occupation has deprived the citizens of the village from accessing vast areas of their lands, restricting them to only 1,000 dunams out of over 16,000 dunams that belong to the village.

The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission recorded that the occupation army carried out 41 incidents of assault, and settlers committed 218 incidents last month, indicating that these assaults ranged from violent physical attacks, arrests, movement restrictions and access denial, intimidation in all its forms, and direct gunfire, with the assaults concentrated in the governorates of Ramallah and Al-Bireh, Nablus, and Hebron.