HEBRON, July 24, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli colonists on Thursday cut down over 40 fruitful grape trees in Masafer Yatta, south of the occupied West Bank city of Hebron. 

According to local activist Osama Makhamra, a group of Israeli colonists vandalized and uprooted the fruitful grape trees belonging to Nasser al-Nawaj'a in the village of Susiya.

During the attack, the colonists reportedly threw stones at Nawaj’a’s home and physically assaulted him,

In a separate incident, colonists opened fire on Palestinian shepherds in the Jubaris area of the northern Jordan Valley.

According to local sources, armed colonists opened gunfire indiscriminately towards the shepherds while they were grazing their livestock, in an apparent attempt to forcibly drive them off their grazing lands.

Residents of the northern Jordan Valley have been living under harsh and unbearable conditions due to escalating attacks carried out by armed colonists, including physical assaults, raids on tents and livestock, and the prevention of grazing access

Colonists’ violence against Palestinians and their properties has dramatically surged since the onset of Israeli aggression against the Palestinian people on October 7th, 2023.

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