Fundamentalist Jewish settlers attack Palestinian villagers in northern West Bank

Tuesday December 01, 2009 02:01 by Ghassan Bannoura - IMEMC News & Agencies

On Monday midday, a group of Israeli settlers attacked the village of Bureen near Nablus city in the northern West Bank.

Israeli settlers in the West Bank - file 2008

Local media sources said that the settlers stormed the village and attacked the farmers there using batons and rifle buts.

Meanwhile the settlers also attacked the villagers' homes and caused some damage.

Bureen is located near the illegal Israeli settlement of Yitshar. The villagers says that the settlers attack them frequently because they want to take over the villagers' lands to expand their settlement.

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