Colonial Israeli settlers and soldiers launched an assault today on the homes of Palestinian citizens in Masafer Yatta region, located in the southern region of Hebron in the farthest south of the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.

Mohammad Rabai, the head of the Al-Tuwanah village council in the region, told WAFA that a group of Israeli settlers and soldiers stormed the village and embarked on attacking homes of local Palestinian residents.

During the attack, Rabai added, the Israeli soldiers apprehended Amjad Musa Rabai, a local resident, after raiding his home, along with the homes of his two brothers, Musab and Kamal Rabai.

The assailants reportedly subjected the families to physical violence, insults, and threatened to kill one of them in the near future, Rabai explained.

It is worth noting that these daily and systematic assaults on Palestinians and their property in rural areas of the West Bank aim to forcibly displace them from their lands as part of the ongoing Israeli settlement ex
pansion plan.

Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA