Official: Israel army, settlers carried out over 1,000 attacks in occupied West Bank last month

The Israeli occupation forces and settlers carried out 1,705 attacks across the occupied West Bank including East Jerusalem last month, a Palestinian official has said.

“The [Israeli] occupation army carried out 1,475 attacks, while settlers carried out 230 attacks,” Moayad Shaaban, who heads the official Colonisation and Wall Resistance Commission, said in a statement.

He explained that a majority of the attacks – 300 – took place in Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank followed by Hebron with 267 attacks, and Ramallah which suffered 263 attacks.

The attacks included armed assaults against Palestinian villages, field executions, vandalism, bulldozing agricultural lands and uprooting olive trees, seizing the private property of Palestinians and installing barriers that divide Palestinian villages, according to the same source.

Shaaban said settlers have also tried to establish eight new colonial outposts since the beginning of last month, for agricultural and pastoral purposes in Tubas Governorate, Jericho, Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Tulkarm and Nablus.

Occupation authorities have demolished 79 facilities including inhabited and under construction homes as well as agricultural facilities and distributed 93 demolition notices for Palestinian facilities. They also put forward 27 structural plans to expand illegal Jewish only settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem.

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