In the Bedouin community of “Ein Deek” near Jericho, settlers infiltrated a house where 4 solidarity activists were staying during a solidarity mission to protect the residents, and severely beat them, resulting in 3 moderate injuries and one serious injury, after which they were taken to the hospital.
According to local sources, three of the injured were Italian citizens and the fourth was a Canadian. The assailants also stole their passports and mobile phones and vandalized the contents of the house. The solidarity activists had been staying at the Bedouin encampment for several days to provide protection and support to the residents amid escalating settler attacks.
In a related context, settler attacks continued in other areas, as they vandalized agricultural water networks in the northern Jordan Valley on dozens of dunams, and smashed 4 vehicles in the town of Yasuf, east of Salfit, in addition to carrying out acts of vandalism, cutting off irrigation water supplies and stealing water meters in the Al-Masoudiya archaeological area, northwest of Nablus.
According to the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, settlers carried out 766 attacks against Palestinians and their property in the West Bank during last October.
The occupation army carries out an arrest campaign.
Since dawn on Sunday, the occupation army has been carrying out a wide-scale raid campaign in various areas of the West Bank, during which 13 Palestinians were arrested, and 22 others were detained and subjected to field investigation before being released later.
In the Salfit governorate in the northern West Bank, Israeli forces detained 10 young men from the town of Al-Zawiya, west of the city, and 12 others from the neighboring village of Qarawat Bani Hassan, and subjected them to field investigation before releasing them, according to the official Palestinian news agency WAFA. The forces also fired tear gas canisters in the vicinity of the area without any reported injuries.
In Nablus, Israeli forces arrested a young man from the village of Tell, southwest of the city, and three others from the village of Sarra, after raiding their homes. The forces also stormed the Balata refugee camp east of Nablus, and soldiers tore down pictures of martyrs inside the camp.
An Israeli special force also infiltrated the Old City and raided the Jasmine Quarter, where a young man was arrested and taken to an unknown location, while gas and tear gas were fired in the vicinity without any injuries being reported.
In the southern West Bank, the army arrested five Palestinians from the town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, after searching their homes, and three young men from the town of Sa'ir, east of Hebron, after also raiding their homes, according to the same sources. The arrests also included three young men from the town of Sa'ir, east of Hebron, after their homes were raided, according to these sources.
This comes as part of an ongoing Israeli escalation in the West Bank since the start of the war of extermination on Gaza, which has resulted in the martyrdom of more than 1,085 Palestinians, the injury of nearly 11,000 others, and the arrest of more than 21,000 others.
The Israeli war of extermination in Gaza, which began on October 7, , 2023 and lasted for two years with American support, left more than 70,000 martyrs and about 171,000 wounded Palestinians, most of them children and women, and massive destruction with reconstruction costs estimated
