West Bank (UNA/WAFA) – Settlers’ attacks on Palestinian citizens and their property in the West Bank continued, as part of an organized policy of forced displacement aimed at expanding colonial settlement and imposing a new demographic reality in the occupied Palestinian territory.
In this context, settlers stormed the village of Shallalat al-Auja, north of Jericho, and assaulted Palestinian Bedouin citizens while they were on their land, as part of a systematic escalation aimed at forcibly displacing them.
Hassan Malihat, general supervisor of the Al-Baidar organization for the defense of Bedouin rights, reported that the settlers, backed by the occupation army, assaulted the residents with sticks, unleashed trained dogs on them, and threatened to burn their property if they did not leave the area.
Malehat explained that this attack comes within the framework of an organized policy of forced displacement targeting the residents of Bedouin communities in Area C, with the aim of expanding settlement control and imposing a new demographic reality in the region.
Like other Bedouin communities in the Jordan Valley, the residents of the Al-Auja Shallalat community suffer from repeated attacks on their lands and homes.
An elderly citizen was also injured in an attack carried out by settlers, under the protection of the occupation forces, on the residents of Khirbet Umm Nir, adjacent to the village of Susya in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron.
Anti-settlement activist Osama Makhamreh told WAFA that settlers from the Susya settlement, built on Palestinian land, attacked the homes of several residents from the Nawajaa and other families, as well as shepherds in the area. They threw stones at them and prevented them at gunpoint from leaving their homes, issuing death threats.
During the attack, the settlers beat the elderly citizen, Musa Ali Al-Nawaj’a (62 years old), while he was near his home, causing him bruises and contusions. He was subsequently transferred by Palestinian Red Crescent crews to Yatta Governmental Hospital.
This attack comes as part of a series of daily attacks carried out by settlers against residents of Masafer Yatta, aimed at terrorizing residents and forcing them to leave, as part of systematic Judaization schemes targeting the Palestinian presence in southern Hebron.
Last night, settlers burned a vehicle scrapyard in the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah.
Barqa village council head Sayel Kanaan told WAFA in a phone call that settlers stormed the western side of the village and set fire to a vehicle shed belonging to Mohammed Saber. He added that occupation soldiers stormed the area following the settlers' attack.
The village of Barqa is subjected to repeated raids by settlers, under the protection of occupation forces, which include the firing of live ammunition at civilians and attacks on their property.
During the first half of this year, settlers carried out approximately 2153 attacks, resulting in the martyrdom of four citizens at the hands of settlers. The attacks ranged from attacks on Palestinian villages and assaults on civilians, to setting fire to homes, shooting at citizens, establishing colonial outposts, seizing control of citizens' lands, assaulting streets and vehicles, and launching organized and dangerous attacks, such as what happened in the villages of Kafr Malik, Al-Mughayyir, Beita, Sinjil, and others.
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