Israeli forces arrest 14 in al-Mughayyir amid West Bank raids, settler attacks
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club has confirmed that Israeli forces arrested 14 people during three days of raids on the al-Mughayyir village in Ramallah, including the head of the local village council and the brothers of a child killed in an earlier Israeli attack.
Soldiers also vandalised agricultural lands, bulldozing vast areas and uprooting thousands of trees. Several Palestinians were severely beaten as Israeli forces conducted field interrogations.
In the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reported that Israeli soldiers also stormed the city of Bethlehem and its suburbs, with special forces arresting a recently freed prisoner from inside his family home after assaulting him. They fired tear gas and sound grenades as well, but no injuries were reported.
Israeli settlers bulldozed Palestinian lands in Masafer Yatta, and a settler has forcibly seized the home of a local Palestinian in Shallat al-Auja, located north of Jericho.
Two people injured in settler attack north of Hebron
A group of settlers attacked an elderly man and a young man while they were picking grapes in the Khirbet al-Qat area, north of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, Wafa reports.
According to resident Halhul Mayor Jamal Melhem, an unspecified number of settlers severely beat 60-year-old Mustafa Abdel Qader Melhem and Ayed Yousef Melhem with stones and batons, causing serious injuries.
Melhem explained that settler attacks have recently increased on lands near the Karmei Tzur settlement, north of Hebron, as part of a wider plan to restrict Palestinian farmers from accessing their land.
Medical sources at Khalil Government Hospital told Wafa that the two injured people arrived at the hospital, where they received treatment for severe head injuries.
