Approximately a hundred Israeli settlers attacked today the Palestinian Bedouin community of Al-Ka’abneh, located to the west of the city of Jericho in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources. The assailants demanded the local residents to leave their homes under the threat of weapons.

Nader Ka’abneh, a local resident, told WAFA that the settlers stormed the Bedouin community, where approximately 30 members of his family reside. The settlers pelted the residents with stones, vandalized a vehicle belonging to his brother, Ahmed, and seized another belonging to his brother, Osama, Ka’abneh added.

Moreover, the settlers blocked all dirt roads leading to the Ka’abneh community, demanding their forcible eviction at gunpoint, he explained.

This disturbing incident is indicative of a larger pattern of aggression and attempts at forced displacement practiced by state-backed Israeli terror settler militias in the occupied West Bank.