On Monday, extremist Israeli settlers attacked the Palestinian town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank, assaulting residents and setting fire to a rural home.
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Activist Ayyed Ghafari, who works against settlement expansion in Sinjil, told Anadolu Agency that the settlers carried out the attack under the protection of the Israeli army.
He stated that the settlers burned a 'Ezbeh' (a rural house) on the outskirts of the town while being shielded by Israeli forces. Clashes broke out between local Palestinians and the settlers, during which settlers opened fire.
The Israeli army also raided the town and fired tear gas canisters into residential areas, leading to dozens of cases of suffocation. These were treated on-site.
Ghafari added that on Monday night, the settlers established a new outpost on Sinjil’s land, setting up tents and mobile homes and preventing Palestinians from accessing their lands.
According to the Palestinian Authority’s Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, settlers have set up 60 new outposts in the West Bank since the start of the war on Gaza on October 7, 2023 — including 51 outposts in 2024 alone.
Israeli settlement violations in the West Bank have displaced 29 Palestinian communities, totaling 311 families or about 2,000 people, between October 7, 2023, and the end of 2024, according to the same source.
Alongside the genocidal war on Gaza, Israeli forces and settlers have escalated their assaults across the West Bank, including East Jerusalem. These attacks have killed more than 954 Palestinians, injured nearly 7,000, and resulted in 16,400 arrests, based on Palestinian data.
Backed by unwavering U.S. support, Israel has waged a genocidal war on Gaza since October 7, 2023, resulting in more than 168,000 Palestinian casualties — the majority of whom are women and children — and over 11,000 missing persons.
