WEST BANK, (Palestine Foundation Information Center), Different areas of the West Bank witnessed a surge in Jewish settler violence on Tuesday, including arson attacks on homes and vehicles, and assaults on farmers.
According to media sources, a horde of extremist settlers assaulted and kidnaped farmer Yousef Shakarneh, a resident of Nahalin town in western Bethlehem, as he was plowing his swath of land in the Jabel Banias area of the town.
In southern Bethlehem, settlers stormed the village of Al-Marah Rabah and set fire to a house and two vehicles belonging to Rashid Shalalda.
In Masafer Yatta, south of al-Khalil, settlers from the illegal Susiya settlement attacked Palestinian homes in Area B of the West Bank, particularly in the Wadi al-Rakhim Bedouin community. They hurled stones and Molotov cocktails at homes, and set fire to a vehicle and a tractor belonging to a local resident.
The same settlers tried to set another car ablaze and spray-painted graffiti on the walls of some homes in the same area.
Meanwhile, an armed settler assaulted Palestinian farmers in the Huwara area of Masafer Yatta in an attempt to drive them off their lands and prevent them from working them.
In northern Ramallah, a group of settlers launched a stone-throwing attack on cars near the town of Attara and blocked the road connecting the town with Ramallah City.
In other incidents, the Israeli occupation army demolished three inhabited homes and displaced their residents in the hamlet of Khilat al-Farra, west of Yatta.
The houses belonged to three citizens from the family of Harb. According to local sources, the homeowners had previously received military demolition notices and filed petitions with Israeli courts, but to no avail.
In Ramallah, the Israeli army demolished a commercial facility in Shuqba town.
In east Jerusalem, a crew from the Israeli municipality finished knocking down the house of Mousa Badran in Silwan district after he started tearing it down about one month ago. At the time, the municipality ordered him to demolish his home at his own expense or face fines and additional municipal costs if he failed to comply.
In western Bethlehem, Israeli forces stormed Husan village and demolished a two-story house belonging to Ali Hamamra. They also forcibly evacuated the home of his brother as a prelude to razing it.
