Part of the storming of a Palestinian village by extremist settlers last year (French)
The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission announced on Monday that Israeli occupation soldiers and settlers carried out about 1,593 attacks in the occupied West Bank during the month of January.
This came in a report issued by the Commission on the attacks of the occupation forces and settlers on the Palestinians of the occupied West Bank. The head of the commission, Moayed Shaaban, said that the occupation authorities and settlers carried out 1,593 attacks against Palestinians, including 186 attacks carried out by settlers.
The violations were concentrated in Hebron Governorate, followed by occupied Jerusalem and Nablus.
Violations include stealing livestock and agricultural machinery, seizing vehicles, uprooting and burning trees, and demolishing homes and facilities.
Shaaban pointed out that the attacks have begun to take a serious form, represented by the heavy fines imposed by the so-called Settlement Council on Palestinian farmers and shepherds, amounting to hundreds of thousands of shekels, with the aim of restricting them and forcing them to leave.
New attacks
The issuance of the report coincided with new attacks carried out by settlers against West Bank Palestinians under the guard of occupation soldiers.
Settlers attacked the residents of Ras al-Auja, north of the city of Jericho in the Jordan Valley, and eyewitnesses said that the attacks took place under the protection of soldiers from the occupation army.
The Wall Resistance Authority (governmental) said in a statement that the goal of the repeated attacks, the restriction of livelihoods, and the demolition and destruction of property, pushed the residents of the community to leave their lands and places of residence.
The Authority published a video clip on social media showing armed settlers storming a sheep pen and stealing them.
Source: Al Jazeera