AL-KHALIL, (PIC)
Israeli occupation forces (IOF) razed a residential shed and a water well in al-Khalil on Thursday, while Jewish settlers attacked agricultural land in Jericho.
In the village of Qalqas, south of al-Khalil, the IOF demolished a residential shed and a water well that had been built on the ruins of a house demolished by the IOF a month ago.
Local sources reported that the brother of the homeowner, Muhammad Mustafa Sadr, stated that the occupation forces destroyed the dwelling, which was a tin and brick shed measuring 150 square meters, noting that the IOF soldiers prevented the family from emptying its contents before the demolition.
Sadr pointed out that the dwelling was built on the ruins of his family’s three-story house in the Qalqas area south of al-Khalil, in addition to the destruction of the water well. He mentioned that the house destroyed by the IOF a month ago had each floor measuring 200 square meters and housed more than 30 individuals, and that the shed that was demolished today had been inhabited by the family for about two weeks.
On another front, Jewish settlers attacked agricultural land by deliberately letting their sheep graze on hay bales belonging to citizen Abd al-Latif Ka’abneh in the Al-Malihāt gathering, northwest of Jericho.
Hassan Malihat, the general supervisor of the “Baidar” organization for defending the rights of Bedouins, reported that about three settlers intentionally released their sheep to feed on the hay bales belonging to Ka’abneh.
Bedouin communities face daily assaults from settlers and occupation forces, in an attempt to displace citizens and force them to leave in favor of settlements.
According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Authority, settlers carried out 204 attacks in the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, during August, resulting in the martyrdom of two citizens in Jit, east of Qalqilya, and Wadi Rahal in Bethlehem. Since the outbreak of the genocidal war in Gaza on October 7, 2023, attacks by armed settlers against Palestinian citizens in the occupied West Bank have escalated, amid intensified military campaigns by the IOF in Palestinian cities and refugee camps.
