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SvennoJ on 15 May 2024
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Israeli settlers attack houses in villages across West Bank

Israeli settlers have attacked and vandalised two homes in the occupied West Bank – one in the Hebron area and another near Nablus, the Wafa news agency reports.

Settlers vandalised a house in Masafer Yata and threatened its owner while in the village of Qusra near Nablus, Israelis from the settlement of Esh Kodesh under soldiers’ protection attacked another home.

New settler attack on Gaza-bound aid convoy

Al Jazeera’s correspondent reports that settlers have attacked aid trucks as they were heading to Gaza via Jerusalem.

The correspondent reported that they attacked a truck driver near the Beit El military checkpoint, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

We will bring you updates on this incident as we get more information. The attack comes just days after a mob of Israeli settlers looted aid trucks near Hebron, also in the West Bank, destroying their cargo and then setting them on fire.

Israeli settlers attack truck driver in occupied West Bank

According to new information, it appears that Israeli settlers attacked commercial trucks with Palestinian drivers and not aid trucks.

The Israeli newspaper Haaretz quoted a security source as saying the settlers thought the truck was carrying humanitarian aid. The attack took place near the Israeli settlement of Givat Assaf.




More than 9,300 Palestinians in Israeli prisons: Rights groups

Prisoner rights groups have said that among the detainees are 3,424 in administrative detention, 80 women and 250 children.

The groups said that this tally does not include the number of prisoners from Gaza, who are being subject to “enforced disappearance” since the war began in October.

“Six hundred Palestinians are serving life in prison or are expected to be handed this sentence,” the groups said. “Among them are 21 who have been in prison since before the Oslo accords were signed in 1993. One of the prisoners, Mohammed al-Tous, has been in jail since 1985.”

8,745 arrests made since October 7: Prisoner groups

Prisoner rights groups said that this number includes:

  • 292 women
  • 615 children
  • 75 journalists (49 of them still imprisoned)
  • 18 who have died in detention

This excludes detainees from Gaza, whose numbers the groups estimate are in the “thousands”.