In Yatta south of Hebron, armed settlers attacked homes and farmland in the Wadi al-Rakhim and Khallet al-Hummus areas, injuring four Palestinians with pepper gas and uprooting about 60 trees, activist Osama Makhamra said. Illegal settlers also closed a road linking the two areas, he added.
In Burin village south of Nablus, illegal settlers from the Yitzhar settlement attacked a resident’s home, assaulted a man and three of his sons and smashed two vehicles, Burin village council head Ibrahim Imran said.
Since October 8 2023, Israeli raids and illegal settler attacks in the occupied West Bank have killed 1,173 Palestinians, wounded 12,666, led to the arrest of about 23,000 and displaced 33,000, according to official Palestinian figures.
Palestinians warn that the attacks are paving the way for Israel to formally annex the occupied West Bank, which would end the possibility of establishing an independent Palestinian state under UN resolutions.
Israel was established in 1948 on lands occupied by armed Zionist groups, and in 1967 Israel occupied the remaining Palestinian territories, including the West Bank, Gaza and the eastern part of Jerusalem.
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