Update: Ongoing Attacks by Settlers in the West Bank

SadaNews - Settlers stormed the village of Shalal al-Auja north of Jericho this morning, Saturday, with incursions occurring daily during both morning and evening periods. They have been grazing their livestock within residential areas, causing significant damage to agricultural lands and pastures belonging to residents.

The General Supervisor of the Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, Hassan Malihat, stated that these activities are carried out under the protection of the occupation forces, which raises continuous tension among residents and negatively impacts their security and stability.

He pointed out the absence of any effective measures from the relevant authorities to protect residents and their properties, which increases the suffering of families in targeted gatherings and villages.

Land Grading in Jenin

Meanwhile, settlers' bulldozers began work today morning on leveling and grading agricultural lands in the town of Raba, southeast of Jenin, under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces.

Hassan Malihat stated in a press briefing that the land grading has affected cultivated areas and comes as part of accelerated settlement activities aimed at controlling citizens' lands in the region.

Malihat clarified that this settlement activity deprives farmers of their lands and poses a direct threat to the livelihoods of many families, amid the recurrence of such attacks in the agricultural areas of the West Bank.

He confirmed that the continued land grading is part of steps aimed at expanding the influence of settlements, without regard for residents' rights or their land ownership.

Other Attacks..

Settlers also set up tents on the lands of the town of Deir Estiya, northwest of Salfit.

Anti-settlement activist Nazmi Salman reported today, Saturday, that a group of settlers erected several tents on the western side of the town, between the towns of Deir Estiya and Qarawat Bani Hassan, in a move aimed at seizing lands in that area and establishing a new settlement.

Deir Estiya is one of the areas targeted by the occupation and its settlers, with nine settlements and two pastoral outposts spread across its lands, posing a direct threat to citizens' lands.

Last night, settlers also installed new caravans (mobile homes) in the colonial outpost established in the Qaaoun Plain west of the town of Bardala in the northern Jordan Valley.

Local sources reported that the settlers placed three caravans in the same site where they established the outpost a year ago, raising fears of new colonial expansion and the arrival of more settlers in the area.

The region has been experiencing a continuous escalation in settlers' attacks against citizens and their properties for a year, including physical assaults, vandalism of farms and water networks, and the burning of tents and livestock shelters.

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