HEBRON, November 14, 2026 (WAFA) – Five Palestinians, including a child, suffered suffocation on Saturday evening after armed colonists, under the protection of Israeli forces, attacked a Palestinian home in Wadi al-Rakhim, south of Yatta, south of Hebron.
WAFA correspondent reported that colonists attacked the Shannaran family, set fire to property, and fired tear gas at the family, causing five members, including a child, to suffer from suffocation. They also demolished parts of the house's second floor.
Abd Shannaran, an anti-colonization activist in Wadi al-Rakhim, told WAFA that a child, two women, and two young men suffered from suffocation after inhaling tear gas fired by armed colonists, under the protection of Israeli occupation soldiers, inside the home of Mohammad Mousa Shannaran in Wadi al-Rakhim, south of Yatta.
The injured were transferred to Yatta Governmental Hospital for treatment, where medical sources described their conditions as moderate. The colonists also set fire to a vehicle and a water storage tank.
Osama Makhhamreh, an anti-colonization activist in southern Hebron, told WAFA that colonists attacked the Shannaran family's home in Wadi al-Rakhim, set fire to property, fired tear gas at the family, and demolished parts of the second floor of their house, which is still under construction.
Earlier, colonists, under the protection of Israeli occupation soldiers, attacked and severely beat olive pickers from the Jabareen family in the Wadi Ma'in area of Masafer Yatta, while the soldiers detained several members of the family for approximately one hour.
Israeli soldiers also assaulted members of the Saqr al-Omour family while they were harvesting olives in Wadi al-Jawaya in Yatta.
Meanwhile, colonists assaulted olive pickers from the Shatat family east of Yatta, within the jurisdiction of al-Karmel town.
Israeli occupation soldiers also detained a water tanker belonging to the al-Tuwani village council, along with its driver and an accompanying person, for several hours while it was delivering water to Khirbet Asfi in Masafer Yatta.
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