BETHLEHEM, July 21, 2025 (WAFA) – Colonists assaulted a 15-year-old teenager Monday evening with an electric stun device as he was returning from the town of Taqou to his home in the village of Kisan, east of Bethlehem.

Ahmad Ghazal, Secretary of Fatah movement in Kisan, told WAFA that colonists blocked the teenager’s path near Al-Minya roundabout on the main road, pursued him, and threw an electric stun device at him, causing minor injuries to his hand.

Ghazal confirmed that this assault is part of a systematic escalation by colonists targeting citizens, especially children, in villages east and southeast of Bethlehem. He noted that colonists directly target civilians with no deterrent.

Ghazal called on local and international human rights and humanitarian organizations to urgently intervene to protect residents, especially in Area C, which is witnessing ongoing escalation of colonist attacks. Area C amounts to more than 60 percent of the total area of the occupied West Bank and is under full Israeli military and administrative control.

Villages east of Bethlehem, including Kisan, Al-Minya, and Taqou, have seen a serious increase in colonist attacks aimed at imposing control over lands and forcing the displacement of residents. This is part of a systematic Israeli policy targeting Palestinian presence in agricultural and open areas.

Kisan village is surrounded by several illegal colonies and continues to face ongoing land seizures amid escalating attacks by colonists on residents’ homes and farms.

T.R.