On Saturday, a group of dozens of Israeli settler fanatics, with a cadre of Israeli soldiers accompanying them, performed a provocative tour of the Old City of Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank, restricting the movement of local Palestinian residents during their presence.
Israeli occupation soldiers detain 14-year-old Palestinian teenager Jehad Ghrayyeb in the Old City of Hebron, south of the occupied West Bank.
Also in Hebron on Saturday afternoon, a group of Israeli paramilitary settlers, under army protection, approached the home of anti-colonization activist Issa Amro in the southern West Bank city of Hebron. The settlers harassed Amro and members of his family and attempted to encroach upon the house.
Just north of Hebron, Israeli occupation forces (IOF) set up a military checkpoint west of Bethlehem on Saturday evening .
Local sources told WAFA that the occupation forces set up a military checkpoint in the Aqbat Hasna area, the western entrance to the western countryside of Battir, Husan, Nahalin, and Wadi Fukin. The checkpoint stopped vehicles, searched them, and checked citizens’ IDs, leading to a severe traffic jam.
In the eastern West Bank, Israeli paramilitary settlers also engaged in aggression against Palestinian civilians. Settlers vandalized and stole a water pipeline that supplies several communities in the northern Jordan Valley on Saturday.
Mahdi Daraghmeh, head of the Al-Maleh village council, reported that settlers cut and stole a four-kilometer water pipeline that supplies several communities in the northern Jordan Valley .
In a related context, settlers released their cows to graze on the citizens’ rain-fed crops, which were approaching harvest time .
For weeks now, the northern Jordan Valley has witnessed a clear escalation in settler attacks, under the direct protection of the occupation army, with the aim of forcing citizens to leave their homes .
These attacks are just the latest in an escalation of attacks by Israeli paramilitary settlers against the 3.5 million indigenous Palestinian residents of the West Bank. These paramilitary colonial settlers have moved into the West Bank in direct violation of international law, and with complete impunity and protection by the Israeli military. There are now an estimated 1 million Israeli paramilitary settlers living illegally on stolen Palestinian land in the West Bank — most of whom moved there after the Oslo Agreement of 1993, which prohibited such a transfer of population onto Palestinian land.
