Settlers Wage Daily War on Palestinian Villages: Burning Homes, Killing Livestock

In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian communities are under relentless attack by Israeli Jewish settler militias, backed by the extremist Israeli government. The attacks, which have reached unprecedented levels, include arson, looting, and violence against residents, livestock, and property. The settler groups, supported financially, militarily, and politically by the Israeli government, are driving Palestinians from their lands, forcing families to flee their homes and abandon their livelihoods.

Key Takeaways:

• Over 415 attacks were carried out by Israeli settlers in June alone, with 356 acts of vandalism and theft of Palestinian property.
• Settlers have uprooted 1,068 trees, including 695 olive trees, in cities such as Hebron, Ramallah, Salfit, Tulkarm, and Nablus.
• The rate of settler attacks in the West Bank has increased significantly against Bedouin communities, with 30 communities displaced since October 2023.
• Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir have exploited the Israeli government's need for them to survive and imposed their racist colonial agenda.
• Settlers have built dozens of illegal outposts and have intensified land seizure and expulsion of Palestinians, especially in Area C.
• The Israeli government has allocated hundreds of millions of dollars to infrastructure and roads for settlements, while pastoral settlement has devoured more than 10% of West Bank land.

Statistics:

• 415 attacks carried out by Israeli settlers in June alone, concentrated in the cities of Nablus, Ramallah, and Hebron.
• 356 acts of vandalism and theft of Palestinian property carried out by settlers in June.
• 1,068 trees uprooted, including 695 olive trees, in cities such as Hebron, Ramallah, Salfit, Tulkarm, and Nablus.
• 117 sheep slaughtered by settlers in the Bedouin community of Al-Mayta in the Jordan Valley.
• 30 Bedouin communities displaced from their residential areas since October 2023.

Sources:

• Palestine Chronicle, "Cartography of Jewish Apartheid: Gaza and the West Bank, Two Fronts of Dispossession."
• Palestine Chronicle, "West Bank on the Brink: Israel's Annexation Playbook and the Looming Explosion."
• Palestine Chronicle, "(https://www.palestinechronicle.com/they-hit-first-then-burn-settlers-wage-daily-war-on-palestinian-villages/) They Hit First, Then Burn': Settlers Wage Daily War on Palestinian Villages."
• Twitter, Quds News Network, "Fanatical Israeli settlers continue to chase Palestinians and release their livestock among the residents' homes in Jericho in the occupied West Bank."
• Twitter, Quds News Network, "Colonial Israeli settlers cut down more than 40 grapevines belonging to the Palestinian civilian Nasser Al-Nawajaa after attacking the village of Masafer Yatta south of Al-Khalil in the occupied West Bank."
• Twitter, Jewish Voice for Peace, "When Israel launched its assault against Palestinians in Gaza, violence in the occupied West Bank skyrocketed, another front in its war of annihilation."