Israeli settlers targeting Palestinian factories to force workers off land

Rising Israeli settler violence targets Palestinian industrial facilities across the occupied West Bank, aiming to paralyse the local economy and force mass displacement.

A bulldozer at the Ein Samia stone crusher shows severe damage after Israeli settlers infiltrated the site and set fire to heavy equipment [Screenshot/Al Jazeera]

Economist Moayad Afanah said that industrial facilities in Area B and Area C of the occupied West Bank are being targeted “collectively and deliberately” by settlers. The recent attacks on the al-Junaidi dairy factories in the Tulkarem area appear to be part of this trend.

“The volume of financial losses is enormous, as burning a single bulldozer or excavator costs the investor hundreds of thousands of shekels [tens of thousands of dollars], which ultimately leads to exhausting the Palestinian economy and continuously depleting its resources and facilities,” Afanah told Al Jazeera. “Thus, these attacks succeed in creating an environment that repels investment and life.”

....the settlers’ deliberate sabotage of Palestinian industry is deepening the economic crisis in the West Bank where unemployment has already reached 29 percent.

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