Doha: The Israeli occupation forces and settlers on Saturday unleashed large-scale assaults on Palestinians in numerous parts of the occupied West Bank. The attacks resulted in seven people being wounded and inflicted material damage on their property, with other Palestinians subjected to assault and beatings.
According to Qatar News Agency, a Palestinian man from the town of Al Ram, north of occupied Jerusalem, was shot in the leg after Israeli occupation forces opened fire near the separation wall. In Hebron City, the occupation forces assaulted two children, who were badly beaten, while a Palestinian man and his wife were wounded in southern Hebron after armed settlers attacked them in the Ashkara area, southeast of Yatta, with his wife being promptly hospitalized at Yatta Governmental Hospital.
In Salfit Governorate, the occupation forces attacked several young people in Kifl Haris while erecting a military barricade, with some vehicles being impounded prior to being released later. In Nablus, settlers prevented farmers from harvesting olive crops in the village of Salem, and they were forcibly expelled from their lands.
Reports by the Palestinian Barrier and Settlement Resistance Commission indicate that the occupation forces and settlers carried out as many as 2,215 assaults last September, of which 1,725 were conducted by the Israeli occupation forces and 490 by settlers, largely concentrated in Hebron, Ramallah and Al Bireh, and Nablus. The assaults included armed attacks on Palestinian villages, sabotaging and dredging lands, uprooting trees, and seizing Palestinian property.
The actions also involved the establishment of barricades in some areas, which culminated in the killing of two Palestinians in Ramallah and Al Bireh as a result of gunfire by settlers. These daily assaults lay bare the policy pursued by the occupation forces and settlers in targeting Palestinians' routine life and compromising their social and economic stability, particularly during the olive cultivation season. These actions mark an escalation of attacks on farmers and their lands in an unequivocal attempt to take over their territory and forcibly displace them.