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Settler attacks force Palestinians to abandon occupied West Bank village
Palestinian residents of Maghayer al-Deir in the occupied West Bank have told the AFP news agency that they had begun packing their belongings and preparing to leave the village following repeated attacks by Israeli settlers.
“No one provides us with protection at all,” Yusef Malihat, a resident of the tiny village east of Ramallah, told AFP, a keffiyeh scarf protecting his head from the sun as he loaded a pickup truck with chain-link fencing previously used to pen up sheep and goats.
“They demolished the houses and threatened us with expulsion and killing,” he said, as a group of settlers looked on from a new illegal outpost a few hundred metres away.
“It’s very sad, what’s happening now … even for an outpost,” said Itamar Greenberg, an Israeli peace activist present at Maghayer al-Deir on Thursday.
“It’s a new outpost 60 metres [200 feet] from the last house of the community, and on Sunday, one settler told me that in one month, the Bedouins will not be here, but it [happened much] more quickly,” he told AFP.
The Palestinian Authority’s Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission denounced Maghayer al-Deir’s displacement, describing it as being the result of the “terrorism of the settler militias”.
Several Palestinians wounded as settlers set fire to houses in the West Bank town of Burqin
Israeli settlers have attacked the outskirts of the Palestinian town of Burqin, in the north of the occupied West Bank, setting fire to several houses and vehicles and wounding several people, the Wafa news agency has reported.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said it treated eight burn victims from the blazes.
Local sources told Wafa that a group of settlers, under the protection of Israeli military forces, attacked the al-Buq’an area of the town, burning about five homes and five vehicles belonging to residents.
