RAMALLAH / Qais Abu Samra / Anadolu

A Palestinian was injured on Friday after being attacked by Israeli settlers in the Mu'arajat area, northwest of Jericho, in the eastern occupied West Bank.

Local sources told Anadolu that "settlers attacked a citizen after his vehicle broke down due to a technical fault while he was passing through the Mu'arajat road connecting Jericho (east) and Ramallah (center), and beat him before stabbing him in the back."

The sources added that the injured man "managed to reach the nearby town of Al-Auja, where he received assistance and was transported for treatment."

The attack comes amid escalating settler attacks on Palestinians in the Mu'arajat and Jordan Valley areas, which include assaults on citizens and vehicles and impeding their movement.

About 750,000 settlers live in 141 settlements and 224 outposts in the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, and they commit attacks with the aim of forcibly displacing Palestinians.

During the first half of this year, settlers committed 3,488 attacks against Palestinians and their property, according to a report by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission on July 6.

The attacks included attacking Palestinian villages, burning homes, shooting, seizing land, and establishing outposts, resulting in the deaths of 17 Palestinians.

Palestinians warn that Israel is paving the way through these attacks to formally annex the West Bank, which would undermine the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state, as stipulated in relevant UN resolutions.