Israeli human rights organisation Yesh Din, which works in the occupied West Bank, has shared footage purportedly showing Israeli settlers attacking the Palestinian village of Burin in Nablus while Israeli soldiers “stood idly by”, Al Jazeera reports.

The organisation said 20 settlers — several of whom were masked in the video — burned Palestinian agricultural land and olive trees, set fire to a car, and injured several people during the rampage.

Israeli “soldiers who were nearby stood idly by and did not attempt to stop the crimes”, the rights group said in a post on social media.

Palestine Red Crescent Society spokesperson Ahmed Jibril said that ambulance crews transferred two wounded Palestinians — one 54-year-old woman and a 50-year-old man — to a nearby hospital after the settler attack on Burin.

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