West Bank settlers attack Palestinians in series of weekend incidents

Israeli settlers have been involved in a series of attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank. In one incident, an elderly man was beaten in the village of Burqa, according to Haaretz. The same source also reported that an 18-year-old woman was injured by shrapnel from settler gunfire.

In another incident, eight Palestinians were detained by Israeli forces following an attack by settlers on the village of Ad-Deqaiqa, south of Hebron, as reported by Middle East Eye. The detained individuals were named as Nasser Ahmad Nasser al-Najadeh, Abdul Rahman Mohammad al-Najadeh, Suleiman Mahmoud Kaabneh, Mohammad Suleiman al-Najadeh, Yousef Ahmad Mohammad Kaabneh, Mohammad Raad Amer, Odeh Salem al-Najadeh, and his son Salem.

Settlers also caused damage and disruption in several other incidents, including cutting the main water line supplying a village, depriving around 700 residents of water, and cutting down 30 guava trees owned by a local Palestinian farmer. Additionally, settlers attacked the home of a Palestinian family and foreign solidarity activists, and used pepper spray, causing several people to suffer from suffocation, as per Middle East Eye. An activist told Haaretz that they were kicked as hard as they could during one of the attacks.

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