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Masked Israelis assault Palestinians, burn vehicle on highway
The Israeli military has issued a statement, saying army and police officers were dispatched after reports of violent assaults against Palestinians on Highway 60, which intersects the occupied West Bank.
Several masked Israelis hurled stones and set tyres on fire near the Shilo junction, the statement said. One vehicle was set on fire, and its passengers were assaulted. One woman who escaped from the vehicle suffered from smoke inhalation and received initial treatment from the Red Crescent.
The incident followed the evacuation of an Israeli outpost in the area, it added.
Israeli forces severely injure 12-year-old boy in West Bank’s Qalqilya: Report
Israeli forces have shot and severely injured a 12-year-old boy during an incursion in the city of Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank, according to the Wafa news agency. The boy, who was shot in the head, has been hospitalised for treatment, Wafa cites the Palestinian Red Crescent Society as saying.
The report says Israeli forces have been raiding the town since the early morning, searching residents’ homes and firing live ammunition and rubber bullets.
Israeli forces detain four in Dura as settlers attack residents in Masafer Yatta
Israeli forces have detained four Palestinians in the town of Dura, southwest of Hebron, while armed settlers attacked several residents in the Masafer Yatta area. The Wafa news agency said soldiers fired stun grenades and tear gas toward residents during the raid, before detaining four young men whose identities are not known.
In a separate incident, the news outlet reported that armed Israeli settlers forcibly held several members of the al-Adra family in the Rujum Ali area of Masafer Yatta.
Masafer Yatta, a cluster of 12 Palestinian villages spread across the rolling hills south of Hebron, has been the subject of the Oscar-winning documentary No Other Land, which depicts life in the beleaguered community as Palestinians there are threatened with expulsion.
