Three Palestinians wounded in Israeli settler attack in northern West Bank
Three Palestinians have been injured – one critically – after Israeli settlers attacked an area between the villages of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya, and Beit Lid, east of Tulkarem.
Violence in the occupied West Bank has broken new records this year, with settlers carrying out almost-daily attacks on Palestinians that have involved killings, beatings, and the destruction of property, often under the protection of the Israeli military.
The Palestinian Authority’s Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission says Israeli forces and settlers carried out 2,350 attacks across the West Bank last month alone in an “ongoing cycle of terror”, which has been taking place in the shadow of the war in Gaza.
Two Palestinians suffer head injuries in Israeli settler attack
Illegal Israeli settlers have caused head wounds to two Palestinians after attacking them with stones to the east of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank.
The Wafa news agency reported the incident took place between the towns of Beit Lid and Kafr Qaddum during an ongoing protest against an Israeli plan to build a new outpost there.
The injured Palestinians were taken to Rafidia Governmental Hospital in Nablus for treatment, it added.
Israeli settlers, backed by troops, assault Palestinians in West Bank
Israeli settlers have carried out a series of attacks across the occupied West Bank, torching property and assaulting Palestinians before Israeli forces moved in to make arrests.
In Huwara, south of Nablus, dozens of settlers from a nearby illegal settlement set fire to a vehicle scrapyard after storming the northern part of the town, local sources told the Wafa news agency.
Meanwhile, west of Ramallah, settlers accompanied by Israeli soldiers beat four Palestinians as they tried to remove a soil barrier that settlers had placed in front of their farm near the village of Kafr Nima. The four men were then arrested by Israeli forces.
Video shows Israeli troops shooting Palestinian boy, leaving him to die
Israeli soldiers walk around relaxed while 15-year-old Jad Jadallah struggles in agony. The soldiers shot him in the back, then watched on as Jad signals for help, tries to move and sit up, before finally collapsing.
Jad bled to death over 35 minutes, just metres away from his home.
Looking on helplessly was paramedic Hassan Fuqaha. “We tried to get to him. The soldiers stopped us. They signalled to us with lasers and flashlights to leave,” he says. “We had to pull back to a safer place.”
Fuqaha says barring paramedics from saving the lives of Palestinians has become standard practice. It’s also a regular policy for Israeli soldiers to retain the bodies of Palestinians they kill.
Palestinians in Hebron face Israeli army raids, settler assaults
Israeli forces raided the Fawwar refugee camp south of Hebron, according to Palestinian sources.
Earlier, several Palestinians were wounded when Israeli settlers launched an attack on the village of Khirbet al-Markaz in the Masafer Yatta area, also south of Hebron.
The latest violence comes during near-daily raids and settler assaults targeting Palestinian communities in the occupied West Bank. UN figures show Israeli settler violence has struck Palestinian communities more than 2,400 times over the past two years, forcing at least 3,055 people from their homes, including 1,529 children.
Most of those uprooted are Bedouin and herding families who are particularly vulnerable as settlers attack with impunity.
