The Palestinian Red Crescent Society announced that its crews received a Palestinian family of five on Saturday evening after they were attacked by settlers in the Wadi al-Saba' area, northwest of Hebron. The family sustained bruises and wounds and were taken to the hospital.
The Palestinian News Agency, WAFA, reported that a number of armed settlers attacked elderly citizen Saadi Abdul-Afou Al-Qawasmeh while he was in his vehicle with his family. They severely beat them and shot one of his sons, who suffered bruises and wounds. They were then detained for some time.
In southern Hebron, the Bedouin Rights Advocacy Organization (Baidar), a non-governmental organization, reported that settlers from the Sakhraman outpost and the Maon settlement destroyed Palestinian lands planted with olive trees east of the town of Yatta, using electric saws and shears. The organization asserted that these attacks aim to displace Palestinians and deprive them of their lands.
Two Palestinians were injured on Sunday by settler gunfire in the Khallet al-Eis area of the town of Ash-Shuyukh, northeast of Hebron. Meanwhile, settlers set fire to agricultural land there, under the protection of occupation forces.
Northeast of Ramallah, settlers attacked the village of Al-Mughayyir "under the protection of occupation forces," leaving a young man with bruises. The army also raided the village and arrested a resident, amid the firing of live ammunition and tear gas canisters.
The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission (governmental) said that citizen Nayef Ka'abneh was directly assaulted by settlers belonging to the "Hill Youth" group. The commission published a video clip documenting the attack.
In Jericho, in the eastern West Bank, a group of settlers, accompanied by an Israeli military liaison vehicle, stormed the Al-Auja waterfall area north of the city, causing panic among residents amid a series of repeated attacks against Bedouin communities.
Settlers also raided Khirbet Samra in the northern Jordan Valley twice, on Saturday and the same night. They roamed among residents' tents and carried out provocative acts, part of the almost daily incursions targeting communities in the area, which include attacking homes, persecuting shepherds, and assaulting and stealing livestock.
According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, settlers carried out 431 attacks against Palestinians and their property in the West Bank during August. These attacks included armed assaults, vandalizing land, and uprooting trees. They also established 18 new settlement outposts, most of which were for agricultural and pastoral purposes.
Large-scale raids by the Israeli occupation army
In addition to settler attacks, occupation forces raided the cities of Ramallah, Nablus, Jenin, and Hebron at dawn on Sunday. They fired sound bombs and tear gas during the raid on the Ramallah al-Tahta area, while raiding the Balata and al-Ain refugee camps in Nablus.
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Security sources reported that occupation forces stormed the Hanbali Mosque in the Old City of Nablus after breaking down its doors. Occupation forces also arrested at least 16 Palestinians last night during raids in the town of Anata and the Qalandia refugee camp, north of Jerusalem.
In Jenin, occupation forces continued raiding Palestinian homes in and around the camp, transforming the city into a military barracks, claiming that the homes were located in areas of military operations.
In Hebron, settlers stormed the Old City under heavy army protection. The occupation forces closed the entrances to the area and prevented Palestinians from reaching the Ibrahimi Mosque. This coincided with attacks on members of the family of martyr Marwan al-Qawasmi in Wadi al-Saba, northwest of Hebron. Six of them sustained injuries and bruises after being beaten and prevented from reaching them by ambulance crews. They were later transferred to the hospital.
On Saturday evening, 17 Palestinians were injured during an Israeli raid on the Tubas Governorate in the northern occupied West Bank, while settlers set fire to two agricultural facilities east of occupied Jerusalem.
In parallel with the war of extermination in Gaza, the Israeli army and settlers in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, killed at least 1,018 Palestinians, injured nearly 7,000 others, and arrested more than 19,000, according to Palestinian data.
Parallel political escalation
In parallel with the escalation on the ground, far-right Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich renewed his call on Saturday to accelerate the annexation of the West Bank. Smotrich said on Twitter that "the time for sovereignty has come," claiming that the majority of Likud ministers and the defense minister support his plan to annex 82% of the West Bank.
Smotrich's remarks follow Emirati warnings that the annexation move threatens the Abraham Accords, amid expectations that a number of Western countries, including France, Britain, and Australia, will announce their recognition of the State of Palestine during the UN General Assembly meetings this month.
Last July, the Israeli Knesset overwhelmingly approved a resolution supporting the annexation of the West Bank, a move observers believe will thwart any chance of establishing an independent Palestinian state in accordance with UN resolutions.
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 genocide left 64,368 Palestinians dead and 162,367 injured, most of them children and women. More than 9,000 people were missing, hundreds of thousands were displaced, and a famine claimed the lives of 382 Palestinians, including 135 children
