The assaults mark a pointy spike in settler assaults on Palestinians and their properties and livelihoods in latest weeks.
Printed On 3 Jul 2026
Israeli settlers have attacked a number of elements of the occupied West Financial institution, seizing or destroying Palestinian properties and damaging important provides like water springs, electrical energy traces, and greenhouses, as they intensify their assaults and land seizures in recent weeks.
Israeli settlers broken the principle electrical energy line supplying the village of al-Maniya to the southeast of Bethlehem, the Palestinian Wafa information company reported on Friday, citing Palestinian safety sources.
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The settlers reportedly destroyed the electrical energy line and lower energy to the group, inflicting concern and panic amongst residents. It was the second such incident within the village this week.
Hours later, Israeli settlers vandalised agricultural greenhouses close to the Shufa army checkpoint within the southeast of Tulkarem, native witnesses instructed Wafa, including that the settlers tore the nets defending the greenhouses, damaging agricultural amenities owned by a household from the village of Shufa.
Additionally on Friday, Wafa reported that Israeli settlers had taken management of Ein Rawabi spring within the northeast of Jerusalem after vandalising the location in a brand new assault concentrating on a significant water supply relied upon by Bedouin communities within the space.
The Jerusalem Governorate stated in an announcement that the spring is the one water supply for the native shepherds and their livestock of about 1,300 sheep. The seizure poses a direct risk to the livelihoods of dozens of Bedouin households, the governorate warned.
In the meantime, Israeli settlers seized the property of Mohammad Salameh in Jalud village of the occupied West Financial institution when he was constructing a house for his not too long ago engaged son, the Reuters information company reported on Friday.
Salameh stated appeals to Israeli authorities didn’t assist. He has misplaced his residence and fears the identical destiny will observe his Palestinian neighbours, as they get more and more surrounded by illegal Israeli settlements and outposts.
“If there’s legislation and order, then they [Israeli settlers] will go away,” Salameh instructed Reuters. “But when they reach taking one, then the remaining will observe.”
Wafa reported that assaults by Israeli settlers have intensified in latest weeks, together with raids on properties and makes an attempt to run over Palestinians with autos.
The assaults mark an increase in Israeli settler assaults on Palestinian villages, immediately impacting their livelihoods.
There are an estimated 500,000 Israelis amongst roughly 3 million Palestinians within the occupied West Financial institution. Palestinians have for years reported vandalism, injury to farmland, and assaults linked with settlement expansion.
A United Nations inquiry final month reported that Israeli settler assaults on Palestinian villages and agricultural land had surged since 2023 by 130 %.
