West Bank – Safa
Since dawn on Wednesday, the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem have witnessed escalating attacks by settler gangs targeting villages, farmers, and Bedouin communities.
Armed groups of settlers stormed the Bedouin community of Jabal al-Baba at dawn today and opened fire on the residents to prevent them from going out to pasture for their horses and sheep.
Clashes broke out between young men and settlers, during which a young man was injured by rubber-coated metal bullets.
In the village of Al-Mughayyir in Ramallah, settlers infiltrated the Al-Khala’il area of the village and tried to set fire to an agricultural facility before the citizens confronted them and forced them to withdraw towards the neighboring settlement outposts.
In Ramallah, settlers also uprooted about 200 olive trees in the plain of the town of Turmus Ayya, north of the city.
In the Hebron and Masafer Yatta governorates, settlers attacked farmers in Khirbet Salama as they tried to reach their lands to plow them, taking advantage of the early morning hours.
The settlers brutally assaulted the farmers with sticks and rifle butts, resulting in two farmers sustaining bruises and head injuries, and they were transferred to Yatta Governmental Hospital.
In Masafer Yatta, a settler attempted to run over a flock of sheep in Khirbet al-Litwani, belonging to a local resident.
A group of settlers also vandalized a fence surrounding farmland and uprooted a number of olive saplings in Masafer Yatta.
In Ramallah, the town of Atara witnessed an attack by settlers at dawn, where a group of “Hilltop Youth” infiltrated and set fire to two Palestinian vehicles and wrote racist slogans (price tag) on the walls of nearby houses.
This coincided with the occupation forces closing the Atara military checkpoint and preventing the movement of citizens for hours.
Settlers seized a motorcycle today near the Atara military checkpoint north of Ramallah.
In Birzeit, settlers gathered at the intersections leading to the town and threw stones at passing vehicles carrying workers on their way to their workplaces, causing the windows of at least three vehicles to be smashed.
In the northern West Bank, settlers fired shots into the air to intimidate residents of the Ras al-Ain area of Nablus and confiscated agricultural equipment that had been left in the fields.
In the northern Jordan Valley, settlers targeted shepherds in Wadi al-Faw, forcibly preventing them from watering their livestock, in a continuous attempt to impose a new geographical reality that prevents the Palestinian presence in those pastoral areas.#Settlers injured
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