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Settlers launch wave of attacks after UN's highest court rules Israel must end colonisation of West Bank
ISRAELI settlers have launched a wave of attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank following the UN’s highest court ruling their settlements there are illegal.
In Huwara near Nablus settlers burned Palestinian shops and fields, while in the South Hebron Hills they assaulted a family, beating a woman so badly she was hospitalised. Israeli soldiers were reported to be watching these attacks without interfering.
The International Court of Justice found on Friday that Israel’s massive expansion of settlements in the West Bank, Palestinian territory it has held under military occupation since 1967, was unlawful.
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