According to the IDF, soldiers and police forces received a report that “several Israeli civilians had slaughtered livestock and damaged Palestinian property.”
Members of a Palestinian family were also attacked on Monday after Jewish settlers beat and slaughtered their animals in the West Bank, Army Radio reported.
According to the IDF, soldiers and police units received calls from the Samuya area after reports that “several Israeli civilians were slaughtering livestock and damaging property on Palestinian land.”
The IDF registered three Palestinians injured in the incident and they were evacuated for medical treatment.
“Upon arrival, no suspects were found in the area. Security forces are currently continuing their search at the scene,” the IDF report said.
Settler violence increases in West Bank
Lawyer Omar Nachmani, head of the NGO “Return with Wisdom” and a former spokesman for Democratic Union president Yair Golan, wrote to Shin Bet chairman David Zini on Sunday, urging the Shin Bet to take action after three Jews linked to the Hilltop Youth Movement allegedly attacked a pregnant Arab woman in Jaffa.
A lawyer has urged the Shin Bet to take action after three Jewish hilltop youths allegedly attacked a pregnant Arab woman in Jaffa, warning that settler violence is moving from the West Bank to Israeli cities. (Source: Screenshot/Article 27a of the Copyright Act)
In the letter, the lawyers warned that settler violence was moving from the West Bank to Israeli cities.
The letter follows an incident in which a woman was allegedly attacked while riding in a car with her five-year-old son and seven-year-old daughter. According to family members, three Jewish youths sprayed pepper spray into the car, shouted threats and obscenities, and then fled. The woman was evacuated to Wolfson Medical Center in minor condition.
On December 16, the mayor of Tuqu said that an Israeli settler shot and killed a 16-year-old Palestinian after the funeral of another teenager.
“Today … several young people gathered on the main street and a settler shot 16-year-old Muheeb Jibril in the head,” Tuku mayor Mohamed Badan told Reuters by phone.
Since the outbreak of the Gaza war in October 2023, violence in the West Bank has continued to escalate. Israeli settler attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank have increased dramatically, with the United Nations reporting a record number of attacks in October.
Hodaya Ran, Reuters and Jerusalem Post staff contributed to this report.
