Israeli Colonists Storm Idhna West of Hebron, Injure Palestinian Farmers

Israeli colonists, under the protection of Israeli occupation forces, stormed the town of Idhna west of Hebron and assaulted Palestinian farmers, while Israeli occupation soldiers opened fire at Palestinian landowners and injured a young man after striking him in the neck with a rubber-coated steel bullet.

WAFA reported that two elderly residents sustained bruises while attempting to fend off colonists who tried to steal their sheep, and the Palestinian Red Crescent Society director in Hebron, Mu‘ammar Tmeizi, described the assault as targeting farmers.

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In a separate report, WAFA said that a group of settlers protected by Israeli occupation forces stormed the eastern part of Idhna and attacked residents and landowners, firing rubber bullets and stun grenades and wounding a young man in the neck with a bullet.

The same WAFA account said two elderly men were lightly injured while trying to stop the settlers, who were attempting to steal sheep in the area, and it placed the incident in a Friday evening timeframe in Hebron.

WAFA also tied Friday evening injuries to an attack east of Tubas, saying seven civilians were injured after settlers stormed the village and assaulted residents who had come to assess the condition of homes they were forced to abandon several months earlier.

The WAFA report quoted Mukhlis Masaeed, head of the Yerza village council, as saying settlers stormed the village and attacked residents, causing seven of them to suffer bruises, with two transported to a hospital and Israeli occupation forces detaining the remaining injured.

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In another account, WAFA said four Palestinians were injured during a settlers' attack east of Tubas in the northern occupied West Bank, with the head of the Yirza village council, Mukhlis Masa'id, reporting that settlers stormed the village and assaulted residents.

That WAFA report said four of the injured, suffering contusions, were transported to the hospital, while the earlier WAFA account described seven injured and detention of some of them by Israeli occupation forces.

Beyond Idhna and Tubas, WAFA and other outlets described a wider pattern of raids and assaults across the occupied West Bank, including Israeli forces raiding the al-Fawar refugee camp south of Hebron amid clashes with Palestinian youths.

Al Jazeera’s correspondent reported that Israeli occupation forces entered the al-Fawar camp south of Hebron and beat its residents, while WAFA reported that occupation forces fired live rounds and used sound grenades and tear gas during the raid.

An Anadolu Agency report said that during the same period, a Palestinian man and his son were shot with live ammunition during an attack by settlers on Surif, northwest of Hebron, followed by an Israeli army incursion, and it added that the Palestinian Red Crescent Society treated two people for live-bullet wounds.

An Anadolu Agency account also cited the West Bank Barrier and Settlement Resistance Authority, saying that the Israeli army and settlers carried out 1,659 attacks during May, with 1,108 by the army and 551 by settlers, and it placed the violence within a timeline since October 7, 2023.