A Palestinian was killed and more than 100 others were injured in the town of Hawara and its neighboring villages, south of Nablus, after settlers were killed in a shooting attack, while the Palestinian Authority held Israel responsible for the settlers' horrific crimes against the Palestinians.

And the Palestinian Ministry of Health announced the death of the young man, Sameh Aktash, 37, and the injury of dozens, in attacks carried out by settlers and the Israeli army, south of Nablus.

Settlers launched retaliatory attacks on Palestinian homes in these villages, burning more than 30 homes and commercial establishments and a large number of Palestinian cars, while the occupation forces prevented civil defense teams from reaching the burning houses.

And the Al-Jazeera correspondent reported that dozens of settlers, under the protection of the Israeli occupation soldiers, went out to the main street and the intersections leading to Nablus and threw stones at the houses, and the occupation forces also fired tear gas bombs at the citizens' homes near the Beit Furik checkpoint (east of Nablus).


Hawara process

These developments came after the Hawara town operation, which the occupation army radio said took place near the Einabus roundabout in the town, where an Israeli vehicle was attacked with bullets, killing two settlers.

Eyewitnesses reported to Al-Jazeera that a Palestinian car hit the settlers' car, then an armed man got out and shot them inside their vehicle and fled.

Al-Jazeera correspondent, Samir Abu Shammala, said that the occupation army sent reinforcements, closed the main road junctions and axes, and launched a sweeping and sweeping operation in search of the exit.

The Chief of Staff of the Israeli Army, Herzi Halevi, instructed to push more occupation forces to the West Bank, specifically to the Nablus area, to curb what a statement issued by the military spokesman for the occupation forces described as "sabotage attacks and riots," and to enhance search efforts and arrest the perpetrators of the Hawara operation.

The statement added that the decision was taken following an inspection visit conducted by Halevi to the site of the operation in Hawara and an assessment of the security situation in the region.

An Israeli military official warned against losing control, which would - as he said - lead to massacres.

Meanwhile, the ministers of "religious Zionism" in Netanyahu's government continued their incitement against the settlers and threatened the Palestinians with more attacks.

In his first comment on the process;

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that the army and security forces will arrest the perpetrator of the attack that killed settlers, calling on the settlers not to take the law into their own hands and to allow the army and security forces to do their work.

In turn, Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant said, "Citizens' violation of the system puts them at risk and harms the activity of our forces in chasing terrorists."

He called on the settlers not to take the law into their own hands.

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The Palestinian Presidency said that the attacks of Israeli settlers in the West Bank aim to destroy international efforts to try to get out of the current crisis.

The presidency said - in a statement published by the official Palestinian agency (Wafa) - that it condemns settler attacks on Palestinians and their property, south of Nablus.

She added that these attacks are acts of terrorism that are carried out with the protection of the Israeli army, and that this terrorism and those behind it aim to destroy and thwart the international efforts exerted to try to get out of the current crisis.

The Palestinian presidency held the Israeli government fully responsible for the attacks.

For his part, spokesman for the Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas), Hazem Qassem, said that the operation is a natural reaction to the occupation's crimes, stressing that the resistance in the West Bank will remain present and escalating, and no plan or summit will be able to stop it.

On Sunday evening, Saleh Al-Arouri, deputy head of the Hamas political bureau, called on the Palestinians to mount an urgent mobilization to confront the Israeli settlers.

Al-Arouri said - in a statement - "We call on the masses of our people stationed in Palestine to mobilize urgently and clash with the occupation and its settlers in support of the town of Hawara and its surroundings."

The Islamic Jihad movement blessed the operation, which it described as heroic, stressing that it came in fulfillment of the resistance's promise to avenge the blood of the leaders of the al-Quds Brigades, Muhammad al-Junaidi and Hussam Aslim, and it is a natural and legitimate response to the crimes of the occupation.

For its part, the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine praised the shooting, stressing that it constitutes a real response to the Aqaba summit, which came to try to quell the uprising of the Palestinian people.

The National Liberation Movement (Fatah) called on its cadres to confront the settler attacks on the Palestinian people, stressing that the settler attacks under the protection of the occupation army are an expression of the bloody approach of the successive occupation governments.

Dozens of Palestinian youths demonstrated on Sunday evening near the fence separating the Gaza Strip and Israel, condemning settler attacks in the West Bank.

The demonstrators set tires on fire, threw firecrackers, and chanted "Allah is Great" and slogans rejecting settler attacks.

In parallel, the occupation soldiers intensified their stationing near the fence separating the Gaza Strip.

Outside Palestine, the European Union on Sunday called on the Palestinian and Israeli sides to work to "stop the violence" in the West Bank, and to intervene urgently to protect civilians and prevent further casualties.

In a statement posted on its Twitter account, the European Union expressed its alarm at the violence today in Hawara, in the occupied West Bank, after the killing of two Israelis and settlers attacking Palestinian homes and property, injuring civilians and killing one of them during these attacks.