Settlers Burn Vehicle of Foreign Activists and Attack Citizens' Homes in Masafer Yatta and Arab al-Malihait

SadaNews - On Thursday evening, settlers burned a vehicle belonging to foreign activists, along with furniture and water tanks, and attacked citizens' homes, including a house where a group of foreign activists resides in Masafer Yatta south of Hebron.

Local sources reported that a group of armed settlers from the "Susiya" settlement, which is established on citizens' lands, attacked the village of Susiya, setting fire to a vehicle belonging to foreign activists as well as furniture and water tanks around the home of citizen Nasser Sharayta, after spraying an unknown gas inside the house where several foreign activists and members of the Sharayta family were present.

It was noted that the settlers threw Molotov cocktails and stones at the home of citizen Mohammed Maghnim, and citizens were able to extinguish the fire before it spread inside and around the house, and no injuries were reported.

In a related context, settlers burned the homes of the Arab al-Malihait community early in the morning in the al-Ma'arijat area northwest of Jericho, forcing them to flee the area again after they had returned just yesterday from nearly a month of forced displacement due to assaults by the Israeli occupation and settlers.

Local sources indicated that the settlers burned six mobile homes inhabited by 20 families from Arab al-Malihait, who insisted on returning to their land despite all attempts to prevent and pressure them by the occupation.

The General Supervisor of the Bader Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights and Targeted Villages, Hassan Malihait, stated in a press release that settlers besieged citizens early in the morning and burned homes belonging to citizens Ibrahim Ka'abneh, Jamal Malihait, Attallah Malihait, Jibril Ka'abneh, and Mohammed Suleiman.

Malihait added that the burning of homes and attacks on citizens forced them once again to flee for their lives.

He pointed out that the assault began at one o'clock in the morning, when dozens of settlers, under the protection of the occupation army, stormed the area and set fire to the mobile homes that housed families and their livestock, completely destroying property and putting residents' lives at serious risk.

Malihait emphasized that this attack represents a new chapter in the series of organized crimes targeting the Palestinian Bedouin presence in the Jordan Valley, confirming that the occupation authorities have unleashed settlers to carry out comprehensive ethnic cleansing operations, without any legal or humanitarian restraint, amid a shameful international silence and a systematic failure to provide protection for the civilian population.

He called for an urgent and transparent international investigation into this crime and accountability for those responsible, including those who provided them protection from within the Israeli military establishment.

He also urged immediate intervention from the United Nations, the European Union, and human rights organizations to send monitoring missions to the area and to provide urgent international protection to threatened Bedouin communities in the West Bank.