TUBAS, March 7, 2026 (WAFA) – Six Palestinian families in the village of Al-Aqaba, east of Tubas, dismantled their houses and tents on Saturday in preparation for leaving the area following an unprecedented escalation in colonist attacks.
Moataz Bisharat, the official in charge of settlement affairs in the Tubas Governorate, said that the families reportedly took down their residences due to non-stop Israeli colonist attacks in recent weeks.
On Friday, 12 Palestinians were injured in the same village when Israeli forces attacked them following an assault by armed colonists.
According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Israeli occupation forces and colonists carried out a total of 1,872 attacks during January. Israeli army was responsible for 1,404 attacks, while colonists carried out 468.
The attacks were concentrated primarily in Hebron governorate with 415 incidents, followed by Ramallah and Al-Bireh with 374, Nablus with 328, and Jerusalem with 201.
The Commission affirmed that the attacks took various forms, including direct physical violence, uprooting trees, burning fields, preventing farmers from accessing their lands, confiscating property, and demolishing homes and agricultural structures.
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