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by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Monday morning, May 13 2013; Palestinian sources reported that a group of extremist Israeli settlers attacked and destroyed Palestinian property, destroyed graves and wrote racist graffiti in As-Swiya village, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus.

The sources said that the settlers destroyed a hothouse and two agricultural tractors that belong to resident Abdul-Aziz Nasr, and also attacked and defaced a number of graves in the village, and wrote racist graffiti on them.

On Sunday evening, several settlers hurled stones at dozens of Palestinian cars at the Shave Shomron junction, near Nablus, causing extensive damage, no injuries have been reported.

On Saturday evening, a Palestinian man was injured after being attacked by extremist settlers who invaded the Burin village, south of Nablus.

On Thursday evening, a Palestinian man and his three sons were injured after a number of Israeli settlers hurled stones at their car near Nablus.

Also on Thursday evening, several extremist settlers invaded the Beit Einoon area, east of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, and fired rounds of live ammunition at a number of homes. Medical sources reported that at least one child suffered an anxiety attack after the settlers fired rounds of live ammunition at her parents’ home.

On Wednesday evening, dozens of extremist Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian cars at the entrance of Nabi Saleh village, near the central West Bank city of Ramallah, and hurled stones at them.

The latest attacks are part of ongoing, and recently escalating, attacks carried out by extremist settlers against different villages, towns and orchards in different parts of the occupied West Bank.

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PA: Settlers exhume graves, spray racist graffiti

NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers on Monday exhumed a number of graves and sprayed racist graffiti in the Sawiya village in Nablus, a Palestinian Authority official said.

Ghassan Daghlas, who heads the PA settlement activity file, said settlers from the Alia settlement were responsible for the damage.

He added that a plant nursery and two tractors, belonging to local Abdel Azziz Nasserallah, were also damaged in the attack.

The attack follows clashes on Saturday in the Burin village in Nablus, when dozens of settlers marched into the village.

One villager in Burin was slightly hurt in the hand by a stone and another passed out from tear gas fired by Israeli troops trying to separate the two groups, an AFP journalist said.

The military said that Israeli soldiers also fired rubber-coated bullets, lightly wounding a Palestinian who was given first aid on the spot.

An Israeli army spokeswoman told AFP that about 50 settlers and 20 Palestinians were involved in the confrontation.

The settlers came from Yizhar, a notorious settlement known for being home to Jewish extremists.

Yitzhar settlers also clashed with Palestinians in another neighboring village, Urif, but no injuries were reported, AFP reported at the time.

Tensions have been high in the northern West Bank following a stabbing attack which killed a settler from Yizhar on April 30.

Settlers started over 50 fires across the West Bank following the stabbing, and attacked a mosque and burned tires at junctions in Nablus.

Israeli forces rarely prosecute settlers for violence against Palestinians and their property, which is routine in the occupied West Bank.