Illegal Israeli settlers torch Palestinian homes, injure six in latest occupied West Bank raids
About 40 settlers attacked the hamlet, injuring five people and burning three homes as residents said the community’s solar panels were smashed.
- On Wednesday, about 40 Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian community of Khirbet al-Tuba in the West Bank, burning homes and destroying the village's solar power source.
- Khirbet al-Tuba, a shepherding community of about 100 people in the Masafer Yatta region, faces frequent settler violence; recent months have seen a surge in attacks against Palestinians in the West Bank.
- Resident Radwan Abu Jundi reported attackers beat his wife and daughter during the assault; locals stated five people were wounded in the attack on the hamlet.
- The Israeli military "strongly condemned" the raid on Thursday, stating it had responded after "homes being set on fire and Palestinians being attacked in the area by Israeli civilians."
- Rights groups and residents complain that such attacks often occur with impunity, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government has drastically increased settlements in the Palestinian Territories.
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The meaning of Tell: Why the West Bank may be nearing a breaking point
The events in Tell, southwest of Nablus, were not an isolated act of violence. They were a warning. For years, Israel has treated Palestinian villages in the occupied West Bank as open spaces for military raids, settler invasions, land theft and collective punishment. The expectation was that Palestinians would endure the violence, bury their dead […]
Armed Jewish settlers attacked the remote Palestinian village of Hirbet al-Tuba in the southern occupied West Bank on Wednesday evening, setting several houses on fire and wounding several residents, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa.
Armed Israeli settlers have burned several houses and assaulted Palestinian children in the blatant Masafer Yatta.
The Israeli army, which has been occupying the West Bank since 1967, has confirmed several wounded and houses burned in an attack "by Israeli civilians", saying "strongly condemn" the incident."
Residents of Khirbet al-Tuba were injured and their homes burned during a settler incursion into the southern West Bank Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian hamlet in the West Bank.
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