For the ninth day.. settlers continue to besiege homes in the town of Qusra

Settlers continued, on Monday, for the ninth consecutive day, to besiege homes in the town of Qusra, south of Nablus, under the protection of the occupation army, in an attempt to seize them. The siege of homes of three families in the Ras al-Ain area continues, with electricity cut off and stones thrown at them. Occupation forces closed roads leading to the area, forced residents of two homes to evacuate, and turned 16 homes into military barracks. According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, occupation soldiers and settlers carried out 2,256 attacks last July.

Settlers continued, on Monday, for the ninth consecutive day, to besiege a number of homes in the town of Qusra, south of Nablus, in the northern occupied West Bank, amid protection from the Israeli occupation army, in an attempt to seize them and impose a fait accompli in the area. The settlers continue to besiege the homes of three families in the Ras al-Ain area of Qusra, amid a deployment of occupation forces in the area, who imposed a siege on them, prevented residents from reaching them, and set up a tent in their vicinity under army protection. According to local sources, the settlers have been trying for about four months to break into the homes and seize them, prompting family members to stay in them around the clock on a rotation system to protect them. They added that the settlers cut off electricity to the homes several times during the past period, threw stones at them, and besieged them more than once. The mayor, Abdul Azim Wadi, renewed his affirmation of the steadfastness of the besieged residents and their firmness on Jabal Ras al-Ain, and the steadfastness of the people of Qusra in general and their determination to challenge and stand against settlement schemes, noting the municipality teams' attempts to restore services to the besieged homes, but settler attacks prevented that. Israeli occupation forces closed, on Sunday evening, the roads leading to the Ras al-Ain area in the town of Qusra. Local sources said that an occupation bulldozer closed the roads leading to the area with earth mounds, to prevent citizens from reaching it. Also, Israeli occupation forces forced, last Thursday morning, residents of two homes to evacuate them, and turned 16 homes into military barracks in the town of Qusra. According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, occupation soldiers and terrorist settlers carried out during the past month of July 2,256 attacks on Palestinian citizens, their lands, and properties, with occupation forces carrying out 1,458 attacks, while settlers carried out 798 attacks. The Commission showed that the attacks were concentrated in the governorates: Ramallah and al-Bireh with 260 attacks, Nablus with 247, Jenin with 190, Bethlehem with 185, and Hebron with 170, noting that these figures reveal a clear integration between the tools of military force and settler terrorism, as the occupation army provides a protective, supportive, and nurturing environment that allows the expansion of attacks and turning their results into ongoing facts on the ground.