Israeli settlers forced 3 Palestinian families to leave their area of residence in Nablus Governorate, while the settlers continued their attacks on the Palestinians, coinciding with the occupation forces arresting 3 Palestinians and wounding a boy.
In the northern West Bank, settlers stormed Khirbet Tana, east of the city of Nablus, and forced 3 families to leave, under the pretext that it was a military zone, even though the lands belonged to these families.
Alaa Hanani, an anti-settlement activist in Khirbet Tana, east of the town of Beit Furik, told Anatolia that a group of settlers disguised as the Israeli army arrived at Khirbet and forced 3 families to leave, while 6 families refused to leave.
Hanni explained that the targeted Palestinian families work in agriculture and have herds of sheep and reside in Khirbet during the winter when the grasses begin to grow, and stay until August.
He pointed out that a settler whom the Palestinian residents call “Kobi” deliberately pursues them and sends settlers in army uniform and in a military vehicle that does not have a registration plate, and threatens them.
Hanani stated that he and two of his colleagues were arrested, insulted, and beaten by settlers disguised in army uniforms while on their way to Khirbet to document the settlers’ storming and threatening the residents.
Israeli measures and settler attacks led to the displacement of 28 Palestinian Bedouin communities, including 292 families, including 1,636 individuals, from their places of residence to other places between October 7, 2023 and October 7, 2024, according to a previous report by the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority (governmental).
Also in the northern West Bank, the official Palestinian News Agency (Wafa) reported that confrontations broke out between Palestinian citizens and the Israeli army, which stormed the town of Beita, south of Nablus, during which the occupation fired tear gas bombs, but no injuries were reported.
Developments in the South
In the southern West Bank, the occupation army wounded a boy and arrested 3 Palestinians on Saturday evening, while settlers launched attacks that included burning property in the occupied West Bank.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society said in a brief statement that its crews transported a 16-year-old boy to the hospital injured by live bullets in the thigh in the town of Beit Ummar, north of the city of Hebron.
For its part, Wafa Agency reported that a number of citizens suffered from suffocation on Saturday evening during the Israeli occupation forces’ storming of the town of Sa’ir, northeast of Hebron.
The agency indicated that the occupation forces stormed the Ras al-Arid area in Sa’ir, and as a result, confrontations broke out during which the soldiers fired live bullets and poisonous tear gas bombs at the citizens, causing a number of them to suffocate, and they were treated on the field.
Also in the southern West Bank, Wafa said that a settler stormed a Palestinian community in the Fatih Sidra area in Masafer Yatta (a group of villages) south of the city of Hebron.
She added that the settler stormed the vicinity of the home of citizen Farid Al Hamamda, provoked the family members and insulted them with offensive and obscene language.
The agency added that another settler released his livestock onto citizens’ lands in the Sha’b al-Batm area in Masafer Yatta, and indicated that the Israeli army arrested an elderly Palestinian while he was on his land in the Khirbet Aqawawis area in Masafer Yatta.
Regarding the Israeli army’s raids, eyewitnesses told Anadolu that military vehicles stormed the town of Dura, south of Hebron, and soldiers got out and fired bullets and gas bombs among passersby during the crowd.
In the southern West Bank, Wafa reported that the Israeli army arrested two young men at two military checkpoints west of the city of Bethlehem.
The middle of the West Bank
As for the central West Bank, the head of the local council of the village of Al-Mughayir, northeast of the city of Ramallah, Amin Abu Aliya, told Anadolu Agency that settlers burned farmers’ rooms and closed the western entrance to the village.
Abu Alia added that the settlers burned several rooms used by farmers on the western outskirts of the village of Al-Mughair, and we were not able to count them to prevent us from reaching them.
He pointed out that the settlers and the occupation army closed the western entrance to the village for some time, then reopened it.
In the eastern West Bank, Al-Baidar Organization for Defending Bedouin Rights (a non-governmental organization) reported that settlers stormed the Arab Al-Malihat community, west of the city of Jericho.
The organization added in a statement that a group of settlers stormed the community with flocks of sheep that they released to eat the fodder of the Bedouins, which led to them destroying the fodder and sabotaging their property.
It was reported that the same settlers raided the residence of citizen Muhammad Suleiman Malihat in the community.
In parallel with its war on the Gaza Strip, the Israeli army and settlers escalated their attacks in the West Bank – including Jerusalem – which led to the death of 836 Palestinians and the injury of about 6,700, according to official Palestinian institutions.