Israeli forces, settlers carried out 2,350 attacks across West Bank last month: CRRC
Israeli forces and settlers carried out 2,350 attacks across the occupied West Bank last month, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission.
A Wafa news agency report cited CRRC head Mu’ayyad Sha’ban as saying that Israeli forces carried out 1,584 of those attacks, noting that those were concentrated in the governorates of Ramallah and el-Bireh (542), Nablus (412) and Hebron (401).
“The commission’s monthly report showed that the attacks included direct physical assaults, uprooting of trees, burning of fields and preventing olive pickers from accessing their lands, in addition to seizing property and demolishing homes and agricultural facilities, at a time when the occupation forces close off large areas of Palestinian land under the pretext of ‘security measures’, while settlers are being enabled to expand within them,” the report added.
Settler attacks, Israeli detentions continue across occupied West Bank
Attacks on Palestinians in the occupied West Bank by the Israeli military and settlers have continued overnight with the Wafa news agency reporting:
- Israeli forces detained a young Palestinian man from the Am’ari refugee camp during a raid in Ramallah.
- Israeli settlers raided Palestinian-owned land in the town of al-Attarra, northwest of Ramallah, and stole olive harvests.
- In Beit Inan, northwest of occupied East Jerusalem, Israeli forces attacked two Palestinian brothers as they harvested olives on their land.
- Settlers set fire to Palestinian farmland near al-Lubban Asharqiya, south of Nablus.
Settler attack injures elderly Palestinians near Hebron
An elderly Palestinian man and his wife have been injured after Israeli settlers attacked residents in the Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, according to Palestinian media and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS).
Local activist Osama Makhmara told Wafa news agency that illegal settlers stormed the village of Shaab al-Batoum, beating up 75-year-old Mahmoud Mousa al-Najjar and leaving him with bruises.
He said settlers smashed furniture, destroyed household items and scrawled racist slogans on the walls of his home. According to PRCS, the man’s wife was also wounded in the attack.
Makhmara said that settlers from a nearby illegal outpost, backed by Israeli soldiers, also attacked nearby communities in Yatta, vandalising property, stealing belongings and keys from residents, and ransacking homes and livestock shelters.
