Palestinian activist against Israeli settlements, Osama Al-Makhamreh, said that dozens of settlers attacked residents with sticks and knives, causing dozens of injuries, bruises, and fractures. Nine of them were taken to the hospital, including a three-month-old infant.
Khallet al-Dabaa is subjected to repeated attacks by settlers and the Israeli army aimed at displacing its residents and seizing its lands, according to activists.
On May 5, the Israeli occupation army carried out a large-scale demolition operation in Khallet al-Daba, destroying 25 homes, agricultural facilities, and water wells, under the pretext of "unlicensed construction."
Khallet al-Dabaa is one of the villages threatened with displacement. In 2022, the Israeli judiciary issued a decision to demolish it and displace its residents, claiming that it is located in a firing zone. This move aims to seize its lands, which amount to approximately 3,000 dunams (one dunam is 1,000 square meters).
The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission (governmental) documented approximately 1,613 attacks perpetrated by the occupation army and settlers against Palestinians and their property in the West Bank during August, including 431 attacks perpetrated by settlers.
Meanwhile, occupation forces launched a wide-scale arrest and raid campaign across the West Bank, including the arrest of three young men from the village of Al-Mughayyir, east of Ramallah, and the detention of others in the city of Qalqilya after raiding homes and setting up military checkpoints, according to the Palestinian News Agency, WAFA.
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Forces also arrested more than 15 Palestinians in the village of Haris, west of Salfit, including the village council head and members. In Nablus, settlers attacked an agricultural nursery in the village of Yatma, uprooting trees and causing extensive damage to its contents, as part of ongoing attacks targeting Palestinian property.
Since the outbreak of the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023, Israel has intensified its attacks in the West Bank through raids, demolitions, and settlement expansion, steps Palestinians describe as a prelude to annexing the territory and eliminating the possibility of establishing a Palestinian state.
In parallel with the war of extermination in Gaza, the Israeli army and settlers in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, killed at least 1,017 Palestinians, injured nearly 7,000 others, and arrested more than 18,500, according to Palestinian data.
With American support, Israel has been committing genocide in Gaza since October 7, 2023, including killing, starvation, destruction, and forced displacement, ignoring all international calls and orders from the International Court of Justice to halt it.
The Israeli genocide in Gaza left 64,231 Palestinians dead and 161,583 injured, most of them children and women. More than 9,000 people are missing, hundreds of thousands are displaced, and a famine killed 339 Palestinians, including 124 children.
