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West Bank raids and assaults
Israeli forces and settlers carried out raids and attacks across the West Bank, injuring Palestinians and targeting ambulance and civil defense crews, according to Middle East Eye and Wafa.
“Three Palestinians were injured after being beaten by settlers in Beit Dajan, east of Nablus”
In Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, three Palestinians were injured after being beaten by settlers, with WAFA saying colonists assaulted three Palestinians while they were in the eastern area of Beit Dajan, causing bruises.
In Abu Nujeim, southeast of Bethlehem, settlers opened fire injuring a Palestinian and then attacked an ambulance crew, with Middle East Eye reporting that the crew was sprayed with pepper spray and that two ambulance officers were injured and the vehicle became inoperable.
In Anza, south of Jenin, Israeli forces arrested a 13-year-old boy, Mohammed Imad Sadaqa, after raiding his family home, as Middle East Eye reported.
In the northern Jordan Valley and near Ramallah, settlers attacked Palestinian homes and communities while Israeli forces set up checkpoints, closed roads and carried out raids in Bethlehem, Jenin, Qalqilya, Tubas and other areas, according to Middle East Eye.
Ambulance crews attacked
In the southeast of Bethlehem, a Palestinian was shot with live ammunition during an attack by settlers on the village of Abu Nujeim, and the attackers then targeted a Red Crescent ambulance transporting the injured, according to Shabakat Quds al-Ukhabariyah.
Shabakat Quds al-Ukhabariyah said the settlers shattered the ambulance’s glass and sprayed the crew with pepper spray, causing them to suffocate, while the director of ambulance services at the Red Crescent, Abdul-Halim Jaafara, said that two ambulance officers were injured during the assault.
In Beit Dajan, east of Nablus, Quds News described three Palestinians being injured with wounds and contusions after an assault by settlers with severe beating while they were in the eastern part of the village.
The same report said settlers attacked residents’ homes in Khirbet al-Hamma in the northern Jordan Valley and proceeded to intimidate and threaten them with forced displacement, while also seizing the only spring in Khirbet al-Hamma and channeling it.
In Hebron Governorate, Al-Jazirah Net reported that the Palestinian Red Crescent treated 10 injuries during an assault by the occupation army and settlers on Habba al-Jabriya alley in the head area of Hebron city, including a 60-year-old man injured in his back and hand and a 46-year-old young man who was arrested after being injured.
Qusra siege and displacement
Amnesty International described the siege of three Palestinian families’ homes in Qasra, southeast of Nablus, as "coordinated and strategic settler terrorism," according to Al-Jazirah Net.
“"coordinated and strategic settler terrorism"”
Al-Jazirah Net reported that the families have been confined to their homes since the 9th of this month, with their food supplies running low and lacking basic needs, including running water, and that settlers attacked Palestinian Red Crescent ambulances trying to deliver water and food.
The report said the Israeli army had forced two families from the besieged group and six neighboring families to evacuate their homes for hours on Thursday, then used them as military sites.
In a separate account, جريدة القدس described Palestinian families in the outskirts of Qasra town living in a state of constant terror as groups of settlers imposed a siege on homes for nearly a week, and it quoted citizen Marmar Odeh saying, "I wish I had died at that moment and not seen my nephew killed in front of me and my brother injured".
The same جريدة القدس piece said the US administration pressured Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to publicly condemn these attacks targeting civilians in their homes, while UN data it cited documented displacement of more than 2,200 Palestinians since the beginning of this year until the end of June due to escalating settler violence and restrictions on movement.
