On Friday, Israeli forces and paramilitary colonial settlers continued their daily invasions of Palestinian towns and villages and attacks on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank. This is in addition to the Israeli attacks in Gaza Friday, in which 51 people were killed, including families sheltering in a school that Israeli forces bombed.
The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the recent Israeli settlers’ terrorism and escalating crimes against Palestinian citizens, their lands, homes, vehicles, trees, livelihoods, and holy sites, as happened recently in Duma village, south of Nablus, Attara, Al-Mazra’a Al-Sharqiya, and Abu Falah in Ramallah, and is constantly occurring in the Jordan Valley and Masafer Yatta.
In a statement issued Friday, the Foreign Ministry held the Israeli government directly responsible for these crimes, which are being perpetrated under the protection of the occupation army and with the continued incitement of ministers in the extremist government.
The Ministry pointed out that international responses to the crimes of the Israeli occupation and its settlers are insufficient and do not rise to the level of the terrorism, genocide, displacement, starvation and annexation to which the Palestinian people are subjected, calling for more daring international positions and measures to impose an immediate halt to the crimes of the occupation .
Over the past month, Israeli colonial settlers carried out 466 attacks last month, marking a peak in settler terrorism targeting Palestinian villages and Bedouin communities. The attacks were concentrated in the governorates of Ramallah (126), Hebron (103), Nablus (83), and Bethlehem (39).
Palestinian Ambassador to the United Nations Riyad Mansour condemned on Friday the storming of the prison cell of national leader Marwan Barghouti by extremist minister Itamar Ben Gvir and his threats.
In a statement, he said that Ben-Gvir attacked Barghouti with obscene language and fascist racist hatred, and circulated the video on the X platform, boasting about his heinous and immoral behavior, which violates international law regarding the treatment of prisoners and detainees.
Mansour called on the international community, particularly the Security Council, the International Committee of the Red Cross, and the International Criminal Court, to take the necessary measures to restrain Israel, the occupying power, and its leaders from such violations of international law, and to prosecute these criminals and hold them legally accountable.
Israeli attacks in the West Bank Friday:
Qalqilia:
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) stormed Kafr Qaddum village, east of Qalqilya, on Friday .
Local sources told WAFA that the occupation forces stormed the village from its main entrance, deployed in the Shamiya neighborhood, and fired sound bombs.
Jericho:
A group of Israeli colonial settlers forced two families out of their homes in the Al-Auja waterfall community, north of Jericho, on Friday.
Hassan Malihat, the general supervisor of the Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights and Targeted Villages, told WAFA that settler gangs forced two families, Ayed Musa Ka’abneh and Ibrahim Ayed Ka’abneh, to leave their homes after being subjected to violent attacks inside their homes.
Bethlehem:
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) closed a side road in the town of Tuqu’, southeast of Bethlehem, on Friday evening.
A local source told a Wafa news correspondent that the occupation forces closed the entrance to “Al-Halqum” with earth mounds in the “Al-Baqaa” area near the western entrance, which leads to a residential neighborhood .
It is noteworthy that the Israeli occupation forces have tightened their closure on the town of Tuqu’, by closing its entrances and main and secondary roads.
Ramallah:
Israeli settlers stormed Sinjil town, north of Ramallah, on Friday evening and fired live ammunition.
Local sources reported that a number of settlers stormed the “Gharaba” area, west of Sinjil, in a vehicle and fired live ammunition at residents in the area, who confronted the settlers’ attack. No injuries were reported.
Another group of Israeli settlers stormed the “Al-Tall” and “Al-Batin” areas, according to the sources.
Israeli settlers cut down olive trees in Abu Falah village, northeast of Ramallah, on Friday.
Local sources reported that Israeli settlers stormed the Marj Sa’i plain, located between the villages of Al-Mughayyir and Abu Falah, and cut down a number of olive trees belonging to the citizen Atef Hamayel.
Israeli occupation forces detain Palestinians while storming the Jalazon refugee camp, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli settlers set fire to four vehicles and parts of a house in the town of Atara, northwest of Ramallah, at dawn on Friday .
Local sources reported that the settlers attacked the eastern part of Atara, setting fire to four vehicles, throwing Molotov cocktails at a house, causing material damage, and spraying racist slogans on the walls. Fire engines rushed to extinguish the fire.
The sources pointed out that the occupation army stormed the area to provide protection for the settlers.
Yesterday, Thursday, settlers re-erected colonial tents on the lands of “Khirbet Tarfin” mountain, near the entrance to the town of Atara, following the occupation army’s demolition of these tents four times previously .
Last Monday, settlers established the outpost for the first time, in an attempt to seize the mountain, which is estimated to cover an area of approximately 2,000 dunams and is considered an archaeological site.
Tubas:
The French Foreign Ministry condemned on Friday the Israeli occupation authorities’ demolition of a school under construction near Tubas early this August.
The French Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the construction of the school in the village of Aqaba, east of Tubas, in the northern West Bank, was funded by the French Development Agency in cooperation with the European Union.
The statement explained that the school was expected to serve approximately 100 children, holding the occupation responsible for the demolition, stressing that it was “the second school funded by the French Development Agency in the West Bank to be demolished by Israel, following the demolition of a school supported by the French Foreign Ministry in East Jerusalem.”
The French Foreign Ministry stressed that “the continuation of the colonial policy constitutes a serious violation of international law and threatens the possibility of a two-state solution.”
On the fifth of this month, occupation forces demolished with bulldozers the school, which had been funded by the French Agency in the village of Aqaba, near the city of Tubas. The school was supposed to have two floors, cover an area of 704 square meters, and be built on a five-dunam plot of land.
Hebron:
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) abducted three Palestinians on Friday during a raid into Yatta town, south of Hebron.
Security sources told WAFA that the occupation forces arrested Mahmoud Abdul Mohsen Rashid, Imad Abdul Mohsen Rashid, and Ali Sabah Abu Ali, and searched their homes and ransacked their contents.
A Palestinian man and his wife sustained injuries and bruises on Friday morning after settlers attacked them with sticks and batons in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.
Activist Osama Makhamreh said that settlers attacked the homes of citizens in the village of Susya in the Masafer Yatta area, and assaulted citizen Khader Jumaa al-Nawaj’a and his wife Fatima Khalil al-Nawaj’a, causing them to suffer head and hand injuries after being attacked with sticks and batons. They were then transferred to Yatta Governmental Hospital.
Settlers also attacked the home of citizen Nasser Al-Nawaj’a, broke a number of fruit trees, and destroyed the vehicle of citizen Khader Al-Nawaj’a.
In Khirbet al-Fakhit in Masafer Yatta, a number of settlers stormed the village and roamed around the homes, provoking and attacking residents.
It is noteworthy that the settler gangs have intensified their attacks on citizens in their homes and properties with the aim of displacing them for the benefit of colonial expansion under the protection of the occupation army.
Israeli occupation forces fire smoke grenades while storming the town of Beit Awwa, southwest of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
Nablus:
Israeli occupation forces storm a residential building west of Nablus city in the occupied West Bank.
Israeli occupation forces storm the city of Nablus in the occupied West Bank.
