Video: Injuries in Widespread Attacks by Settlers in the West Bank

SadaNews - Several citizens were injured this morning, Friday, in an attack by settlers and occupation soldiers on the village of Talfit and the town of Qusra, south of Nablus.

Local sources reported that settlers attacked citizens in Talfit, assaulted them, and fired live ammunition at them, resulting in a young man's injury from live bullets in the thigh, in addition to several others suffering injuries and bruises. They also smashed the windows of several vehicles.

The same sources added that the occupation forces, which provided protection for the settlers, fired live ammunition and sound and tear gas grenades at the citizens and their homes in Talfit, leading to cases of suffocation.

They mentioned that a number of settlers also stormed the Ras Ain area in the neighboring town of Qusra, which is witnessing the establishment of a new settler outpost, and attacked citizens with protection from the occupation forces.

The occupation forces surrounded a mosque in the village. Local sources reported that the occupation forces besieged the village mosque as worshippers were leaving after performing Friday prayers.

Clashes erupted between the youth and the occupation forces in the village.

 

Settlers also attacked the homes of citizens in the town of Beta, south of Nablus.

Local sources stated that settlers attacked several homes in the Harayiq area, near Jabal Sabih in the town.

It is noted that settlers attacked citizens in the same area yesterday, Thursday.

Settlers and occupation soldiers also attacked the village of Al-Mughayer, northeast of Ramallah.

Sources from the village reported that settlers and occupation forces attacked the Abu Humam family gathering in the Khalail area of the village, seizing the family's phones, whose fate is currently unknown due to the loss of contact with them, and they also raided one of the houses.

They added that the occupation forces are still closing the entrance to the village and preventing citizens from passing in both directions.

Earlier this morning, the occupation forces stormed the center of the village, set up a military checkpoint, and assaulted three young men.

Meanwhile, settlers cut hundreds of olive trees in the lands of the town of Turmus'ayya, northeast of Ramallah.

A local source reported that settlers from the "Adi Ad" settlement, built on the lands of the town, cut about 300 olive trees in the town's plain.

It is noteworthy that a number of settlers uprooted about 300 olive trees last week around the house of Awad in the Turmus'ayya plain, which is subjected to constant assaults.

Settlers also attacked citizens in the Khirbet Makhoul in the northern Jordan Valley.

The head of the Makhoul village council, Mahdi Draghmeh, reported that settlers assaulted citizens while they were herding their livestock near their tents in Khillet Makhoul.

In the same context, the director of the Prisoners Club in Tubas, Kamal Bani Ouda, said that the occupation detained citizen Yusuf Bisharat, his wife, and their son while they were near their tents in the area. Local sources reported that settlers forced herders to leave the pastures in the village of Bardala in the Jordan Valley.

Seven Palestinian families in the al-Maitah gathering in the northern Jordan Valley began dismantling their homes in preparation for leaving them due to the increasing assaults by settlers.

Draghmeh reported that seven families started dismantling their homes this morning in preparation for departing from them after the escalation of settlers' assaults against them in recent times.

Last night, settlers burned uninhabited tents belonging to families who were forced to leave the same gathering for the same reasons.

It is worth mentioning that the northern Jordan Valley areas witness daily and escalating assaults from settlers, including attacks on homes, assaulting and intimidating citizens, as well as attacking herders and preventing them from accessing pastures and assaulting them and their livestock.

According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, the occupation forces and settlers carried out a total of 1,872 assaults during the month of January, with the occupation army executing 1,404 assaults, while settlers committed 468 assaults, mainly concentrated in Hebron Governorate with 415 assaults, followed by Ramallah and Al-Bireh Governorate with 374 assaults, then Nablus Governorate with 328 assaults, and Jerusalem Governorate with 201 assaults.

The commission clarified that the assaults took multiple forms, including direct physical violence, uprooting trees, burning fields, preventing farmers from reaching their lands, seizing property, in addition to demolishing homes and agricultural structures.