Groups of extremist Jewish settlers escalated their daily attacks and violations against Palestinians, their lands, properties, and holy sites across several areas of the occupied West Bank on Monday.
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In Bethlehem, an armed group of settlers stormed the village of Abu Njeim, southeast of the city, using four-wheel-drive quad bikes. They stationed themselves within residential neighborhoods, carrying out provocative actions including "drifting" and making loud noises to intimidate residents and spread panic.
In Ramallah, the town of Sinjil, north of the city, witnessed simultaneous attacks as groups of settlers deployed heavily near homes in the town's northern area, causing severe tension. Other groups gathered at the town's entrance to perform Talmudic rituals under the protection of Israeli occupation forces for the second consecutive day.
In Hebron, settlers used Molotov cocktails to set fire to a sheep pen and a traditional Taboon oven in the Wad al-Rakhim area, south of the city. They also attacked the home of a local citizen, Riyadh Shnaran, under the protection of occupation forces, causing a fire to break out and leaving the homeowner with burns as he attempted to extinguish the flames.
These incidents come as part of an escalation in attacks targeting Palestinian villages and the property of their residents, amid accusations of field coordination between occupation forces and settler groups across various areas of the West Bank.
Meanwhile, bulldozers belonging to the Israeli occupation forces began leveling operations on Palestinian lands planted with perennial olive trees in the Azzun area, east of Qalqilya in the northern West Bank.
The Azzun Municipality stated in a press release that occupation forces, accompanied by military vehicles, stormed the "Al-Mahjar" area and began uprooting olive trees across an area estimated at 500 square meters. These lands run adjacent to the "Ma'ale Shomron" settlement, which is built on private Palestinian land belonging to the village residents.
The municipality pointed out that the leveling operations and the uprooting of trees were carried out without any prior warning, raising fears of expanding targets against agricultural lands in the region.
In a related context, the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission of the Palestinian Authority reported that April witnessed 1,637 attacks by occupation forces and extremist settlers. These included acts of vandalism, confiscation, and theft of property, in addition to the uprooting and destruction of thousands of olive trees across various governorates of the West Bank.
On another front, Israeli occupation forces issued notices for the demolition, as well as the halt of construction and work, on 15 homes—some of which are already inhabited—in the town of Tuqu', southeast of Bethlehem.
The Mayor of Tuqu', Saqr Suleiman, stated in a press release that occupation forces stormed the Al-Halqoum neighborhood west of the town and issued notices for the demolition and halting of work on 15 homes. The notices included a one-week deadline for enforcement, noting that prior notices had been issued previously.
