WEST BANK, (PIC)
A Palestinian citizen was seriously injured on Saturday following a Jewish settler attack near the town of al-Auja, north of Jericho in the occupied West Bank.
A local source reported that a horde of settlers raided al-Balqa Bedouin community homes and attacked residents, gravely wounding Mohamed Ghawanmeh in the head.
Settlers also intensified their aggression against residents of the Abu Fazaa community in the town of al-Taybeh, east of Ramallah, according to al-Baidar Human Rights Organization.
The rights group said that settlers attacked the community in the morning, besieging its people, cutting off its water supply, and damaging property and crops.
Other settler crimes and attacks were also reported last night and this morning in different areas of the West Bank.
A group of settlers set fire to a vehicle at the Karamilo rotary close to the village of al-Taybeh, east of Ramallah, last night.
Settler groups also attacked Bedouin communities in the al-Awsaj area north of Jericho.
In al-Khalil, settlers assaulted farmer Mohamed al-Hamamda while he was working his land in the Tel Ma’in area of Masafer Yatta.
On Friday, settlers desecrated the grave of a Palestinian buried near al-Asa’isa village in southern Jenin.
At the request of settlers, Israeli forces stormed the burial site and forced Palestinian residents to exhume the body, claiming the grave was close to the Tarsala settlement.
