WEST BANK, (The Palestine Foundation Pakistan)
A Palestinian child was seriously injured on Thursday in a settler attack in the Khillet al-Natsheh area of al-Khalil, in the southern West Bank.
Local sources told the PIC correspondent that the child, Adam Hijazi Al-Shantir, was injured during an assault by settlers in Khillet al-Natsheh, an area that has witnessed repeated attacks targeting residents and their property.
Meanwhile, armed Jewish settlers stole olive harvests on Thursday evening after attacking Palestinian farmland and damaging fruit-bearing trees in Masafer Yatta, south of al-Khalil.
Local sources confirmed that groups of armed settlers raided fields belonging to the Jabarin and Abu Aram families in the Bir Ma’in area and the nearby Al-Rakiz community, where they picked and stole olive crops.
In the village of Susiya, settlers also uprooted and destroyed several productive olive trees belonging to local resident Radi Al-Nawaj’a, then carried out a provocative tour around Palestinian homes, attempting to attack them. Residents resisted the aggression, and no injuries or damage were reported.
The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission stated that, in October alone, Israeli occupation forces and settlers carried out a total of 2,350 assaults, continuing what it described as a “pattern of organized terrorism” carried out by the occupying state against the Palestinian people, their land, and their property.
The Commission detailed that the Israeli military was responsible for 1,584 of those assaults, while settlers carried out 766 attacks. It noted that the highest numbers of attacks occurred in the governorates of Ramallah (542 incidents), Nablus (412), and al-Khalil (401).
