HEBRON, November 30, 2024 (WAFA) – Armed Israeli colonists Saturday evening attacked Palestinians’ houses in the at-Tabaqa village, southwest of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron, according to WAFA correspondent.

He said that armed colonists barged their way into the village and opened gunfire towards villagers’ houses, causing a 63-year-old woman to suffer from intense panic.

The assailants came from the nearby colonial outpost of Negohot, established on the lands of the Khallet Taha area.

Meanwhile, armed colonists attacked Palestinian farmers in the Tuwas area, west of Dura, preventing them from ploughing their farmlands and forcing them to leave at gunpoint.

In the meantime, colonists, under the protection of the Israeli army, broke into several neighborhoods of the Old City of Hebron, at a time when the occupation forces tightened movement restrictions, denying Palestinians access to a number of roads and entrances leading to the area.

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 about 1,500 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.

Colonists’ violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.

Colonists’ violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.

There are over 700,000 Israeli colonists living in colonies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

K.F.