He brought back the scenes of the Nakba and the crimes of the Zionist gangs.. The settlers are wreaking havoc in the villages of Nablus, so what are the options for the Palestinians?

Nablus -

 "More than a thousand settlers attacked our house and the neighboring houses in the northern neighborhood near the Salman Al-Farisi roundabout, and in moments the neighborhood turned into a large mass of fire, after the settlers burned our house, two vehicles, and a truck for me and my brother, then they attacked and burned the house of our neighbors, and they did the same with a vehicle repair complex in its vicinity." .

This was not a scene from a movie, but rather a planned attack by settlers on the town of Hawara and the neighboring villages near Nablus in the northern West Bank. The painful details were lived by the citizen Ahmed Dmaidi, his family and the people there, forcing them to stay awake all night to avoid a major disaster.

It seems that the fireball is rolling rapidly towards more qualitative escalation in the crimes of the Israeli occupation against the Palestinian people, as the town of Hawara and the villages near Nablus witnessed an attack by hundreds of settlers, during which they burned many homes and vehicles.

The house of the citizen Ziad Damidi in Hawara after it was burned by settlers (Al-Jazeera)

A crime in protecting the occupation army

Dmaidi told Al-Jazeera Net that the attack initially targeted the citizens' homes on the outskirts of the village, before the settlers gathered again with the onset of night and expanded their aggression.

He explained that "about a thousand settlers - most of them armed - spread around our homes and launched their attacks under the protection of the army, burning our vehicles and our house and causing losses of more than 30 thousand dollars, and we were unable to leave the house to save ourselves or even the neighbors due to the density of settlers."

In the house of the Al-Dumaidi family, a major disaster almost occurred after more than 100 settlers surrounded it and set it on fire, not caring about the residents inside.

"They attacked the house and burned it twice, after they broke its windows and set its rubber tires on fire, and the five members of my family were trapped for more than two hours while the fire was burning," Muhammad Dmaidi, Ziyad's son, told Al Jazeera Net.

The occupation army prevented the citizens from confronting the settlers, as it fired fire and tear gas to disperse them, which allowed the settlers, over a period of 3 hours, to expand the crime and diversify it between burning, throwing stones, stabbing with sharp tools and knives, and even shooting.

The burning of cars and property is the most prominent remnant of the settler attack on the Palestinian town of Hawara (Al-Jazeera)

The army facilitated and supported the attack

Rana Abu Haniyeh, the official responsible for monitoring settler attacks in the municipality of Hawara, says that the attack was very violent, and that everyone saw the flames and thick smoke rising as a result of the burning operations that Hawara and the region had not experienced before.

Rana confirmed that the occupation army facilitated the settlers' attack, by closing the military checkpoints surrounding the town and erecting earthen barriers, to prevent citizens from communicating and moving, as well as preventing ambulances and civil defense vehicles from arriving.

Since the morning hours, the Hawara municipality has started documenting the attacks and assessing the initial damages. Rana says that they have documented the complete and partial burning of 20 houses, as well as shops. They also documented the burning of 30 personal vehicles and dozens in two gatherings (grounds / workshops) for vehicle repair, in losses estimated at millions of dollars. .

While Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir and others visited the site of the operation, Davide Ben Zion, deputy head of the Northern West Bank Settlements Council, commented on his Twitter page, saying: "The village of Hawara must be erased today."

The burning of Palestinian property by settlers was under the protection of the occupation army, which prevented citizens from protecting it (Al-Jazeera)

Calls for solidarity

Via loudspeakers in mosques and social media platforms, calls were made among citizens in Hawara and villages south of Nablus to support each other and confront the settlers. A joint committee was formed between the municipality and the Red Crescent to facilitate ambulance and civil defense missions.

According to the statistics of the Palestine Red Crescent Society, a citizen was killed during the Hawara incidents, and others were injured, while about 350 citizens suffocated with tear gas, and 3 ambulances were attacked, and others were prevented from reaching to rescue the injured.

Not far from Hawara, citizens of the neighboring village of Burin faced a brutal attack by about 100 settlers.

Citizen Ayman Soufan says that the settlers burned his house and two vehicles, and surrounded him and 15 members of his family for more than two hours, and almost inflicted a "massacre" on them, as he described it.

Soufan told Al-Jazeera Net, "If they were able to open the door and storm the house, you would have read Al-Fatiha on our souls," referring to the attempt to kill them.

But the killing was actually practiced by the settlers in the house of the family of the citizen Abu Bassam al-Najjar, who are neighbors of Ayman Soufan, after the settlers slaughtered 5 of his sheep and stole 10 other heads, and blew up the entrance to his house with a Molotov cocktail that they threw at a gas pipe that was there.

Settlers used tires to burn citizens' homes and properties in the Palestinian town of Hawara (Al-Jazeera)

The solution.. Initiating the attack

In this context, Abd Abu Rahma, official of popular action in the Wall and Settlement Commission - a government agency - believes that what is required to confront settler attacks lies in two parts. spread by the settlers and causing them losses.

Although defense is important at this stage, it is not sufficient, according to what Abu Rahma told Al-Jazeera Net, adding that "we must take the initiative and attack in more than one location to deter settler gangs."

The Palestinians are facing, according to Abu Rahma, an organized gang of settlers, who enjoy popular and official Israeli support, which enabled them to carry and license weapons and launch attacks with the protection of the army, in addition to "a government that is not committed to any agreements and decisions of the international community, and even yesterday's agreement in Aqaba."

This motivates the settlers to persist in their criminality, but the variable here is the will and steadfastness of the Palestinian people, and that "it will not accept a second Nakba as the settlers wanted it yesterday in Hawara," according to the spokesman.

This is how the people will respond

For his part, Adel Shadeed, a political analyst and specialist in Israeli affairs, read the settler attacks as a message from the government, the occupation army and the settler leadership collectively, to the Palestinian environment incubating the resistance operations to spread fear and terror in it to deter it.

It is also an Israeli political and security message after the Aqaba summit, stating - according to the strong opinion - that the Aqaba summit established a reality that what is happening now is the result of the resistance operations, and these operations are the result of the authority's weakness and its inability to control matters, and not as some tried to portray it as a summit to stop settlement and persistence. Occupation and its incursions and attacks.

The political analyst added that in light of the lack of the minimum level of security and protection for the Palestinians from the authority and national organizations, it is expected that the people's reaction will be in the form of yesterday's commando operation.