Zionist settlers, Palestinians clash in Ramallah

Israeli settlers have clashed with Palestinians in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, amid escalating tensions.

The clashes erupted in the Palestinian village of Baytillu on Wednesday, after the Israeli settlers entered the village overnight and sprayed the words “price tag” on a wall of a house.

At least five vehicles were damaged as Israeli settlers and the Palestinians threw rocks at each other.

Israeli extremists regularly carry out “Price tag” attacks, targeting Palestinian properties, cars, mosques and olive trees. The perpetrators are rarely caught by Israeli security forces.

On Tuesday, Israeli settlers vandalized a Palestinian mosque in Nablus. They also stopped two school buses near the illegal Yizhar settlement, south of Nablus, and hurled stones at the vehicles, injuring 20 students.

In the same day, settlers set fire to dozens of olive trees in the Nablus villages of Asira al-Qibliya and Urif, and attacked vehicles east of Tulkarem.

Tensions heightened in West Bank following a stabbing attack that killed a settler earlier in the day near Zatara checkpoint in Nablus.