Third attack on auto repair shop in Burqah that has become a target for soldier and settler violence

On Thursday, 26 May 2022, at around 11:00 A.M., seven masked settlers arrived at an auto repair shop at the entrance to the town on Route 60, which has been attacked twice this year, once by soldiers and once by settlers escorted by soldiers. The settlers threw stones at the auto repair shop and one of them entered its office and smashed its contents with a metal baton. They injured two Palestinians and left. A military jeep arrived and the entrance to the town, and the soldiers inside it fired about five tear gas canisters at the residents who were trying to defend the garage. Walid Abu ‘Omar (31) was injured in his leg during the clashes with the soldiers and was taken to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus.