Six Palestinians were injured and several farmers detained on Friday in separate attacks by Israeli occupiers across the occupied West Bank, according to local sources and a Palestinian rights group.
Local sources told Anadolu Agency that occupiers attacked the Palestinian vehicle with stones near the village entrance, causing it to overturn and injuring five young men inside.
The injured were taken to a hospital for treatment, they added.
In a separate incident, the Al-Baidar Organization for the Defense of Bedouin Rights said Israeli occupiers accompanied by Israeli forces detained several Palestinian farmers as they attempted to reach their land in Halhul town in the southern Hebron governorate.
The organization said the detentions came amid continued Israeli restrictions on farmers and measures preventing them from accessing their land in the area.
A video accompanying the statement showed a Palestinian being detained by armed men in civilian clothing who claimed to be police officers, according to the organization.
In another attack, Israeli occupiers attempted to steal a number of sheep in the Al-Jiftlik area, north of Jericho, and attacked Palestinians, injuring one of them with stones, Al-Baidar said.
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The occupiers also smashed a vehicle belonging to a Palestinian during the attack, the organization added.
In August, US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee described Israelis involved in violence against Palestinians in the West Bank as “terrorists,” warning that such acts cause significant damage to Israel’s image.
In June, 14 UN experts warned that a sharp increase in occupier terrorism, backed and enabled by the Israeli state in the occupied Palestinian territory, posed an existential threat to Palestinian communities.
Around 750,000 Israeli occupiers live in 156 illegal settlements and 360 settlement outposts across the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Since the start of Israel’s war on the Gaza Strip in 2023, attacks by the Israeli army and occupiers against Palestinians and their property have escalated across the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem.
The attacks include killings and arrests of Palestinians, demolition of homes and structures, burning of mosques and vehicles, bulldozing of agricultural land, preventing farmers from accessing their land, displacement of Palestinians and illegal settlement expansion.
Israel has occupied the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, since 1967.
The international community considers Israeli settlements built on occupied territory illegal under international law, while Israel continues illegal settlement activity despite international criticism.
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