West Bank: Farmer injured, crops stolen, property burned in 18 attacks by army and settlers

A Palestinian farmer was injured Sunday evening in an attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, while the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission documented 18 attacks by the army and settlers, including beatings, arrests, expulsions, crop theft, and property arson.

A Palestinian farmer was injured Sunday evening in an attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, while the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission documented 18 attacks carried out by the Israeli army and settlers against farmers, their lands, and property during the day. Voice of Palestine radio reported that a farmer was injured with bruises in an attack by settlers on olive pickers in the village of Burham, north of Ramallah in the central West Bank. In the southern Hebron Governorate, the Al-Bayader Rights Organization stated in a statement that settlers from the "Susya" settlement attacked a Palestinian family while they were harvesting olives, without indicating any injuries. In the same governorate, human rights activist Osama Mukhamara told Al-Anadol that settlers stormed a Palestinian home in the Khallat al-Homs area south of Yatta, explaining that the home belongs to citizen Khairi Abu Taha, and that the settlers provoked the family members during the break-in. The Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission announced in a statement that its teams documented, on Sunday, 18 attacks and violations carried out by the Israeli army and settlers against farmers, their lands, and property. It explained that the attacks were distributed across the governorates of Ramallah and Al-Bireh, Nablus, Salfit, Jenin, Hebron, and Bethlehem, and included beatings, arrests, expulsion from lands, theft of crops and equipment, property arson, and tree destruction.

West Bank: Farmer injured, crops stolen, property burned in 18 attacks by army and settlers