Road crash in West Bank kills 7 Palestinians, injures 3

JERUSALEM — Two vehicles collided connected a constrictive two-lane road successful the occupied West Bank connected Thursday, sidesplitting 7 Palestinians and injuring different three, according to Israeli medics.

Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas declared Friday a time of mourning for the victims, who helium described arsenic “martyrs of trying to marque a living.” Thousands of Palestinian laborers enactment successful Jewish settlements on Highway 90, which runs done the Jordan Valley.

Israel’s Magen David Adom rescue work confirmed the 7 deaths and said 3 radical were evacuated for aesculapian treatment, including an 18-year-old and a 20-year-old successful captious condition.

Israel captured the West Bank successful the 1967 war, and Palestinian privation it to signifier the main portion of their aboriginal state.

Tens of thousands of Palestinians enactment successful Israel and Israeli settlements, wherever wages are overmuch higher than successful the parts of the West Bank administered by Abbas’ Palestinian Authority. The economical disparity mostly stems from Israel’s 54-year concern of the territory and the restrictions it imposes connected the much than 2.5 cardinal Palestinians surviving there.

The Palestinians and astir of the planetary assemblage presumption the settlements, location to astir 500,000 Jewish settlers, arsenic amerciable and an obstacle to resolving the decades-old conflict.