AL-KHALIL,(Palestine Foundation Information Center ) Israeli settlers, backed by the Israeli occupation forces (IOF), set up three new outposts on Monday on Palestinian land in Al-Khalil, southern West Bank, after seizing thousands of dunums.
According to the Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights, settlers placed dozens of mobile homes on lands in Birin, east of Al-Khalil, taking control of nearly 6,400 dunums belonging to the village, Bani Na’im town, and parts of al-Khalil city.
The organization said the area has been witnessing an intensified settler campaign for the past two months, including new road construction, land seizures, crop destruction, and well sabotage, measures it described as a direct threat to Palestinian existence in the region.
A related report from the Palestinian Authority’s Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission said settlers carried out 466 attacks across the West Bank in July alone, killing four Palestinians, forcibly displacing two Bedouin communities of 50 families, and attempting to establish 15 additional outposts.
Since the start of Israel’s genocide in Gaza on October 7, 2023, settler violence and IOF operations in the West Bank have escalated to unprecedented levels. At least 971 Palestinians have been martyred by IOF gunfire and settler attacks, according to Palestinian statistics.
