Eight Palestinians, including children, were injured on Tuesday in an Illegal Israeli settler attack in the Huwara area of Hebron province in the southern occupied West Bank, while the Israeli army arrested an elderly Palestinian man during the assault.
The Palestinian Red Crescent said in a statement that its teams treated eight people, including children, who were injured after Israeli settlers beat them in Huwara. The injured were taken to a hospital.
Local sources told Anadolu that settlers attacked Palestinian homes in Huwara, beating residents and spraying them with pepper spray, injuring several people.
The Israeli army arrested an elderly Palestinian, Ibrahim Ismail al-Jabour, during the settler attack, the sources said. His age was not immediately specified.
The area, like other parts of the West Bank, has seen repeated settler attacks targeting Palestinians, their property and livelihoods under Israeli army protection.
According to a report by the official Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission, illegal settlers carried out 3,488 attacks during the first half of this year, including attacks on Palestinian villages, assaults on Palestinians, burning homes, opening fire, seizing land and establishing illegal settlement outposts. The attacks killed 17 Palestinians.
About 750,000 settlers live in 141 illegal settlements and 224 illegal settlement outposts in the occupied West Bank, including 250,000 in 15 illegal settlements in occupied East Jerusalem. Settlers carry out daily attacks aimed at forcibly displacing Palestinians.
The West Bank has seen a sharp escalation in attacks by the Israeli army and settlers since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023, killing 1,179 Palestinians, injuring 12,666 others and leading to the arrest of around 24,000.
