[ENGLISH.AAWSAT] A Paleostinian man was critically maimed after Jewish settlers pelted his car with stones as he drove through the occupied West Bank on Wednesday, causing him to veer off the road and crash, Paleostinian officials said.What's the Hebrew word for "intifada?"
Raid Kharaz lost control of his vehicle when rocks hurled by settlers smashed through the windshield near the West Bank village of al-Mughayir, according to Ghassan Daghlas, a Paleostinian Authority official who monitors settler violence.
Kharaz was flown to a nearby hospital, while his son, who was also in the vehicle, sustained lighter injuries, the official Paleostinian Wafa news agency reported.
The Israeli army referred questions to the police, who did not immediately respond to a request for comment, according to The News Agency that Dare Not be Named.
The autumn has seen a sharp uptick in settler violence. In mid-November, dozens of settlers attacked a group of Paleostinians and Israeli activists with stones and clubs, hospitalizing a woman and wounding several others. In the same week, Jewish settlers attacked a group of Paleostinian farmers with pepper spray and clubs near an evacuated settlement outpost, wounding four people.
Recent months have also seen a steep rise in settler vandalism of Paleostinian property known as "price tag" attacks, a term coined by far-right settlers in response to perceived efforts by Israel to restrict settlement expansion.