Settlers Launch Overnight Attacks Across West Bank Under Israeli Army Protection

West Bank, MINA – Extremist Jewish settlers launched a wave of overnight and dawn attacks and violations under direct protection from Israeli forces across the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestine Information Center on Monday.

Settlers attacked the home of Turmus Ayya High School principal Mohamed Musallam, threatening to kill him and his family after storming Khirbet al-Marajim, a small village located between Ramallah and Nablus.

In Nablus, a horde of settlers attacked Palestinian homes in the Harayek area of Beita town and set up tents in front of a house in the Ras al-Ein area of Qusra town.

Another group of settlers vandalized plastic greenhouses in the town of Beit Furik, east of Nablus, and stole a tractor from the outskirts of Beit Imrin, northwest of the city. In Ramallah, settlers attacked citizens in the plains of al-Mughayir town, while a large group stormed the al-Hafr area of Deir Jarir village in large numbers.

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Settlers also hurled stones at a Palestinian vehicle and attacked its passengers with pepper spray on the Marj Sia road between Abu Falah and al-Mughayir towns, northeast of Ramallah. Other settlers stormed the homes of the Kaabneh Bedouins east of Ramallah for the second time in a week and grazed their sheep in al-Mughayir village.

In al-Khalil, settlers harassed local residents and released their livestock in the Hamroush area of Sa’ir town, while others grazed their cattle in the Khillet al-Homs area of Yatta.

Settlers also went on the rampage through the Khillet al-Homs area of Yatta, damaging property, and another group set fire to a house in the Shi’b al-Butm area of Masafer Yatta. In Jenin, settlers stormed the hamlet of Khirbet Masoud near the town of Ya’bad and wreaked havoc on dozens of fruit-bearing trees in Khirbet Farrasin, west of the city.

The attacks come amid a documented spike in settler violence, with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reporting an average of three settler-related incidents per day in the West Bank since the Gaza war began.

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The continued assaults, carried out with military protection, form part of a systematic campaign to displace Palestinian communities and expand Israeli control over occupied land.[]

Mi’raj News Agency (MINA)

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