Field sources reported that child Suhaib Raed Badawi sustained various bruises and contusions on Saturday evening, after being subjected to a brutal assault by groups of settlers in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron. These attacks occurred under the direct protection of the occupation forces, who provided cover for the settlers while they targeted residential and pastoral communities in the area, leading to clashes and assaults on citizens and their property.
In the village of 'Shaab al-Butm' in Masafer, settlers attacked the family of citizen Muhammad Abd al-Rahman al-Jabarin using toxic pepper spray, causing severe suffocation to family members, a foreign activist, and a woman, requiring field intervention. These attacks come amidst a frantic wave of settlement escalation aimed at displacing Palestinians from their pastoral lands and expanding settlement outposts surrounding the city of Hebron.
On the ground, occupation forces arrested four citizens from the 'Abu Shaban' area following an attack targeting shepherds in the area. The detainees are Ismail Awad, Jaber Muhammad Alian Awad, and the brothers Saif and Karam Tawfiq Alian Awad. The occupation forces deliberately pursue shepherds in these open areas to reduce the grazing areas available to Palestinians, in a step aimed at undermining the local economy based on livestock.
In a related context, a recent report issued by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission revealed a dangerous escalation in the pace of settler attacks, with approximately 443 attacks documented in just one month. The commission explained that these operations are highly organized and carried out in coordination with the occupation army, and include the use of live ammunition and the burning of property and agricultural facilities to impose new demographic realities in the West Bank.
According to the commission's statistical data, Nablus Governorate topped the list of violations with 108 attacks, followed by Hebron Governorate with 99 attacks, and then Ramallah and Al-Bireh with 76 violations. The scope of these attacks also extended to include Bethlehem, Jerusalem, Salfit, Jericho, and Qalqilya governorates, reflecting a comprehensive strategy to intensify pressure on the Palestinian presence throughout the occupied territories.
This systematic tightening aims to push residents to leave their pastoral lands and empty the area of its original inhabitants.
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Child injured and Palestinian family suffocated in settler attack south of Hebron