Israeli attacks sweep occupied West Bank, wounding eight Palestinians

Illegal Israeli settlers, troops wound eight Palestinians in occupied West Bank. (Photo/Reuters)

At least eight Palestinians have been wounded during a wave of attacks carried out by illegal Israeli settlers and military forces across the occupied West Bank, Palestinian official sources confirmed.

North-east of occupied East Jerusalem, three Palestinians sustained wounds when illegal Israeli settlers stormed the Bedouin community of Maazi Jaba, according to the occupied East Jerusalem Governorate.

The assailants physically assaulted local residents—including women and children—and vandalised vehicles, whilst illegal settlers and accompanying Israeli forces torched several residential homes and livestock sheds.

In the northern occupied West Bank, four Palestinians suffered severe bruising after illegal settlers attacked them with wooden sticks and stones in the village of Immatin, located in the Qalqilya governorate, the official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported.

Assaults, raids, and agricultural vandalism

Further violence broke out south of Nablus, where a 50-year-old Palestinian man was wounded after Israeli soldiers beat him in the village of Usarin, according to the Palestine Red Crescent Society.

Israeli forces subsequently launched an incursion into the village, firing barrages of tear gas canisters and stun grenades into populated residential streets.

In the Jenin governorate, illegal Israeli settlers vandalised Palestinian agricultural land near the town of Ajja, stealing olive harvests from local farms and deliberately destroying mature tree branches during the annual harvest season.

According to the Palestinian Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission, illegal Israeli settlers have perpetrated more than 14,742 attacks across the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, since October 2023, killing at least 66 Palestinians.

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Source: TRT