West Bank – Safa
Since dawn on Saturday, various areas in the West Bank and occupied Jerusalem have witnessed a series of systematic attacks by settlers under the protection of the occupation forces.
The attacks targeted farmers, shepherds, and children, with the most violent attacks concentrated in the Jordan Valley and East Jerusalem.
In the Fasayil area of the northern Jordan Valley, eyewitnesses and local sources reported that groups of settlers had released their livestock into citizens’ agricultural lands and natural pastures since the early morning hours to damage crops and provoke the residents.
Settlers attempted to steal livestock belonging to Palestinian farmers in the area at gunpoint, in an attempt to displace the remaining pastoral communities there.
In Jerusalem, settlers carried out provocative marches this morning in the alleys of the Old City, during which they assaulted and verbally abused a number of Jerusalemites.
The areas surrounding the town of Jaba’ north of Jerusalem also witnessed attempts by settlers to harass shepherds in nearby Bedouin communities, and to pursue them to prevent them from grazing their sheep in open areas.
Settlers from pastoral outposts established on the lands of Qusra village and Jalud town attacked citizens’ lands and uprooted a number of olive saplings before the locals confronted them.
In Ramallah, the Al-Mughayyir area, east of Ramallah, witnessed provocative tours by armed settlers on horseback, during which they chased farmers in the surrounding plains and prevented them from working on their lands since the early hours of the morning.
In the Masafer Yatta area of Hebron, settlers carried out attacks on residential communities in Khirbet al-Daba’.
Settlers vandalized water tanks and destroyed a number of tents used by shepherds, in an escalation aimed at tightening the noose on the Palestinian presence in areas classified as “C”.
Settlers stormed the village of Al-Minya, east of Bethlehem, and the Khallat Al-Nahla area in the village of Wadi Rahal, to the south, and assaulted citizens, expelled them from their agricultural lands, and prevented them from working on them.
The settlers also released their sheep to graze on agricultural lands owned by citizens in Wadi Rahal, damaging crops and the livelihoods of the residents.#JordanValleySettlers
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