Various areas in the occupied West Bank witnessed a new wave of attacks by extremist settlers on Saturday, resulting in injuries among Palestinian citizens. These attacks focused on the town of Jalud, south of Nablus, as well as the Jabal Jales area in the eastern part of Hebron, leading to seven people sustaining various injuries and bruises.
Regarding the attack on Jalud, local sources reported that a group of settlers attacked the Al-Dhahr area and violently attempted to storm citizens' homes. The town's residents confronted this attempt with their bare chests, leading to clashes that resulted in three citizens being injured. They were immediately transported to a medical center in the neighboring town of Qabalan for necessary treatment.
In Hebron, the attack was characterized by excessive brutality, as armed settlers from the 'Havat Gal' settlement targeted citizens in the Jabal Jales area. The attack was carried out with direct support from occupation soldiers, resulting in four citizens being injured, including two women, amid a state of panic among the families residing in that settlement-targeted area.
Palestinian Red Crescent teams transferred three injured individuals from Hebron to the government hospital, among them the 71-year-old elderly woman 'Umm Hamed Al-Zarou Al-Tamimi'. Medical sources confirmed that the elderly woman was severely beaten by the settlers, necessitating urgent medical intervention to monitor her health condition, which was damaged due to the physical abuse.
Citizen Rashed Al-Zarou Al-Tamimi explained that large numbers of settlers gathered in the Jabal Jales area in a clear attempt to seize citizens' lands and expand the settlement area. He pointed out that these attacks are not isolated but come within a systematic policy aimed at pressuring residents and pushing them towards forced displacement to abandon their lands and properties.
These field developments come amid an escalation in the violence perpetrated by settlers in various governorates of the West Bank, with the protection and facilitation of the occupation army. Residents in threatened areas are appealing for urgent international protection to stop these crimes that target the Palestinian presence and work to change the demographic and geographical reality in the region.
Residents are subjected to continuous abuse aimed at forcibly displacing them for the benefit of settlement expansion in the Jabal Jales area.
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Injuries among Palestinians following settler attacks in Nablus and Hebron