HEBRON, April 19, 2025 (WAFA) – Armed Israeli colonists, under the protection of Israeli occupation soldiers, set fire to agricultural crops and attempted to seize livestock on Saturday evening in the Masafer Yatta region, located south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.
Anti-settlement activist Osama Makhamra told WAFA that colonists burned more than half a dunum of wheat and barley crops in the Wadi al-Rakhim area, west of the village of Susiya, south of Hebron. The fire also destroyed construction materials and wooden supplies at a house under construction on the property.
In a separate incident, armed colonists detained a flock of sheep belonging to Palestinian shepherd Issa Al-Hamamdeh near Khirbet al-Taban in Masafer Yatta, claiming the animals belonged to them. The incident occurred under the watch and protection of Israeli soldiers.
Such attacks by colonists in the West Bank—often accompanied or overlooked by Israeli forces—have been escalating, with repeated incidents of arson, land theft, physical assaults, and intimidation targeting Palestinian residents and their livelihoods.
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