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Sun 15 Oct 2023 6:55 pm - Jerusalem Time
New attacks by Israeli settlers in the West Bank
Today, Sunday, settlers began plowing land in Khirbet Al Farisiya in the northern Jordan Valley, in an attempt to seize it.
The official in charge of the Jordan Valley file in Tubas Governorate, Moataz Bisharat, reported that more than 20 settlers stormed the Nab’ al-Ghazal community in Khirbet al-Farisiya, and began plowing land near the tents of citizen Ali Zuhdi Abu Mohsen. They also attacked the residents with stones, noting that the same land a settler had begun plowing last week. The past, but residents and solidarity activists were able to expel him.
Earlier today, a force from the Settlements Council, accompanied by the Israeli police and occupation army, stormed the residence of citizen Ali Abu Mohsen, detained his family, and attempted to seize his agricultural tractor, but the citizens and solidarity activists present in the area prevented this, as skirmishes took place between them and the forces. Occupation.
The head of the Al-Maleh and Bedouin village council, Mahdi Daraghmeh, also reported that the family of citizen Abu Mohsen has been subjected to repeated attacks by settlers for about a week, as they are trying to force them to leave the area, while the “Colonial Council” threatened them and demanded that they leave it permanently.
In the villages of Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron, settlers attacked livestock herders and citizens.
Coordinator of the Popular Committees to Resist the Wall and Settlements in South Hebron, Ratib Al-Jabour, said that settlers from the “Karmiel” settlement established on citizens’ lands in south Hebron, under the protection of occupation soldiers, attacked the homes of a number of citizens from the Al-Hathalin family in the village of Umm Al-Khair, and prevented them from leaving their homes forcefully. weapons and threatened to kill them.
He added that a number of settlers from the "Bani Hefer" settlement, established on the lands of citizens from the Al-Mahaniya family, southeast of the town of Bani Na'im, attacked livestock herders in the village of Al-Buwaib and threatened them with death, while the occupation soldiers fired bullets at two vehicles near the village of Ma'in, east of Yatta, without causing any casualties.
Al-Jabour pointed out that settlers from the “Susya” settlement, established on citizens’ lands southeast of Yatta, attacked two young men in the Jurat al-Jamal area in the village of Susiya, from the Al-Nawajaa family, and smashed the windows of their vehicle, causing them to suffer bruises and contusions, and they were treated in the field.
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New attacks by Israeli settlers in the West Bank