WEST BANK (Palestine Foundation Information Center) Three Palestinians were injured early Friday morning after being physically assaulted by Israeli settlers, and eight others suffered from toxic gas inhalation during a violent Israeli occupation forces’ (IOF) raid on the town of Beita, south of Nablus.
According to local sources, a group of settlers launched a pre-dawn attack on the home of Samer Abu Zaitoun in the Qamas area near Jabal Sabih.
The settlers attempted to set the house on fire and beat three residents who tried to prevent the arson. Shortly after, IOF troops stormed the town, firing live bullets, tear gas, and stun grenades. Eight residents were treated for suffocation due to the inhalation of tear gas.
Elsewhere in the occupied West Bank, settlers cut down trees on farmland between the bypass road and the illegal Yitzhar settlement near the town of Burin, south of Nablus. The attack caused significant damage to agricultural lands owned by Palestinian residents.
In another incident in Jericho, Jewish settlers—under the protection of the IOF—forced around 20 Palestinian families to evacuate their homes in the Arab al-Milehat neighborhood north of the city. The forced displacement was carried out under direct threat, in a move that local residents say is aimed at clearing the area for future settlement expansion.
These attacks are part of a sharp rise in settler violence across the West Bank, which has prompted popular and factional calls to confront the escalating aggression and increase the presence of Palestinians in threatened areas.
The Hamas Movement condemned the surge in settler assaults, home demolitions, land confiscations, and construction of new outposts, emphasizing that such actions would not break the Palestinian will, but rather strengthen the people’s resilience and commitment to their land and rights.
Hamas also warned the occupation of the consequences of unleashing settlers to carry out violent campaigns, stressing that the Palestinian people and their resistance will not remain passive in the face of continued injustice. “The occupation will reap nothing but disappointment and defeat from its oppression,” the Movement emphasized.
