HEBRON, November 8, 2024 (WAFA) – Israeli occupation forces Friday evening attacked Palestinians in al-Ras area close to Wadi al-Hasin, located to the east of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) and local sources.

They said that the occupation soldiers held and brutally assaulted several Palestinians along with their families in the area, causing a person to sustain wounds in the head and inflicting bruises across the bodies of several others.

They added that the soldiers held the aforementioned people and their families as the latter attempted to access their houses in the area.

Over 750 Palestinian families living in al-Ras area as well as in other neighborhoods in the Old City of Hebron face harsh living conditions due to the alarmingly rise in the assaults committed by Israeli occupation forces and colonists.

Since October 7, 2023, approximately 11 neighborhoods in the Old City of Hebron are subjected to curfew in the evening hours, whereby inhabitants are denied access out of their houses and subjected to tightened mobility restrictions, not to mention attacks by armed colonists.

The city of Hebron, which houses the Ibrahimi Mosque, is home to roughly 160,000 Palestinian Muslims and about 800 notoriously aggressive Israeli settlers who live in compounds heavily guarded by Israeli troops.

Israel has expelled the only international monitors protecting Hebron’s Palestinians from 800 heavily guarded settlers, one of whom committed the 1994 massacre that triggered their deployment.

K.F.