Video shows Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians under army protection

A recently released video footage has showed Israeli settlers hurling rocks at Palestinians in a village in the occupied West Bank in the presence of Israeli forces.

According to Press TV, settlers were filmed by Palestinians at a home in a West Bank village hurling stones at Palestinians on Friday, while four soldiers watched the incident and did not intervene to stop them.

The clashes reportedly erupted after a fire broke out between the villages of Urif and Asira al-Qibliya.

The Israeli human rights group, Yesh Din, said after the fire, dozens of Israelis arrived from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar accompanied by soldiers and started hurling rocks at Palestinian homes.

The settlers also burned a number of Palestinian fields, damaging several homes.

A spokesman for Yitzhar blamed the clashes on the residents of Urif, saying they started the initial fire.

The area is seen as an epicenter of settler violence and has witnessed several attacks on Palestinians and their property.

On April 13, masked Israeli settlers from Yitzhar settlement were caught on camera attacking a Palestinian family in the neighboring Palestinian village of Urif with rocks.

“The incitement-preaching yeshiva [Orthodox Jewish seminary] in Yitzhar should be shut down,” said Tamar Zandberg, the Chairwoman of Israel's left-wing opposition party.

"The settlement has become an incubator of Jewish terror and should be evacuated."

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