Last Tuesday, fanatic illegal Israeli colonizers attacked a 64-year-old American woman near Hebron, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, causing her to lose consciousness due to a skull fracture and internal bleeding.
Yuval Abraham, a journalist with 972 Magazine, an independent, online, nonprofit magazine run by Palestinian and Israeli journalists, said, “the masked colonizers came from the Havat Ma’on,” an illegal colonialist outpost installed on stolen Palestinian lands near Hebron.
Abraham said the colonizers struck Cassandra Auren, a 64-year-old American citizen and a mother of two from Wisconsin, with a club in the back of her head when she was standing with another peace activist from Italy on Palestinian lands that the colonizers are trying to occupy illegally.
The woman was hospitalized for two days suffering a skull fracture and internal bleeding.
Abraham added Cassandra was helping Palestinian farmers on a villager’s land when a settler group attacked her.
The attack occurred in a community near Masafer Yatta, part of the municipal boundaries of Yatta town, southwest of Hebron.
Masafer Yatta is a cluster of nineteen Palestinian villages, 14-24 Kilometers south of Yatta, and are subject to constant violations by the soldiers and the paramilitary colonizers due to the constant Israeli attempts to remove the Palestinians from the area to build and expand the illegal colonies on stolen Palestinian lands.
In May Israel ruled to evict and displace more than 1000 Palestinians from Masafer Yatta, to use the area as a training zone for its occupation army.
On May 16, 2022, the United Nations Human Rights Office of the High Commissioner (OHCHR) said: “UN human rights experts urgently called on Israel and the international community to stop the forced evictions, arbitrary displacement and forcible transfer of Palestinian communities from Masafer Yatta in the occupied West Bank.”
“Following the judgment of the Israeli High Court of Justice earlier this month, around 1,200 Palestinian residents of Masafer Yatta, including 500 children, face imminent risks of forced evictions, arbitrary displacement, and forcible transfer, in serious breach of international humanitarian and human rights laws,” said the experts.
“We are monitoring with concern the latest information indicating that the Israeli forces have demolished structures in the Masafer Yatta communities of Khribet al Fakhiet and al-Markez. These demolitions place them at immediate risk of forcible transfer.”
On May 4, the Israeli High Court of Justice rejected appeals against eviction orders issued to Palestinian inhabitants of Masafer Yatta, the area designated as a closed military training site, “Firing Zone 918”, south of Hebron. The decision effectively ends the legal proceedings that lasted for more than two decades, thereby permitting the Israeli forces to clear and use the area for military training. Read the statement:
