A child was injured, yesterday, when “Israeli” settlers chased him on Al-Shuhada Street in the center of al-Khalil, West Bank, Wednesday, November 3.

The Palestinian citizen, Fayez Jaber, stated that his nephew, Abdul Majeed Hamouda Jaber, 12, was injured and bruised after being chased by settlers on Al-Shuhada Street in the center of al-Khalil. He was then transferred to al-Khalil Governmental Hospital.

In addition, settlers hurled stones at citizens' vehicles on the road between occupied Jenin and Nablus.

Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settler violence in the northern West Bank, said that a group of settlers blocked the road between Jenin and Nablus, from the roundabout of Silat al-Dhuhr town to the entrance to the town of Burqa, north of Nablus, and attacked citizens' vehicles with stones.

Confrontations erupted in the area after the intervention of the occupation forces, Daghlas added.

According to Areej Institute, the number of colonial settlements in the occupied West Bank is 199, in addition to 220 settlement outposts. More than 913,000 usurping settlers live in these settlements and outposts, 350,000 of them are in occupied East Jerusalem.