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The terrorism of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank continues, as they launched 14 attacks in 4 Palestinian governorates on Saturday, during which they stole 300 sheep and cut off a water line, according to an official source.
The Palestinian Committee for Resistance Against the Wall and Settlements (governmental) said in a statement that the settlers carried out, until evening, at least 14 attacks in four governorates in the West Bank.
The committee explained that the settlers' attacks were distributed as follows: 6 attacks in Ramallah and Al-Bireh (central), 3 in Hebron (southern), 3 in Nablus (northern), and 2 in Bethlehem (southern).
It pointed out that the attacks in Ramallah and Al-Bireh included firing at citizens' homes in Mughayr village, attacking citizens with pepper gas and causing damage to an ambulance.
They also included attacking a citizen and stealing the olive crop, in addition to reporting the theft of about 300 sheep from the Hayyan area in Deir Dubwan.
In Hebron Governorate, settlers cut the main water line supplying the village of Adeeqa in the Yatta countryside, depriving about 700 citizens of water, and burned an agricultural room.
Settlers also attacked the family of citizen Fadl Al-Hada, in Khallat Al-Hams in Hebron, and forced them to move their tent set up on the ruins of their demolished house in search of a safer place, according to the committee's statement.
In Nablus Governorate, settlers roamed among the citizens' homes in Lubban Al-Sharqiya village and stole equipment from Naqura village lands.
In Bethlehem, the committee said that settlers chased shepherds in Za'atra village, released their livestock in citizens' lands, and gathered near their homes in Wadi Abu Najm area.
The committee confirmed that these attacks "are part of the integration of occupation tools that target the security of Palestinians, their properties, water sources, and livelihoods."
It pointed out that "these attacks essentially aim to narrow the existence of Palestinians and push them to leave their lands."
Affirming adherence to the land, the committee said: "These attacks will not grant their perpetrators the right to the land, nor will they succeed in uprooting the Palestinian from it."
It called on the international community to "move from condemnation to providing actual protection and accountability."
According to the data of the Committee for Resistance Against the Wall and Settlements, settlers carried out 628 attacks in August 2026 in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.
Last August, the US ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, described Israelis involved in acts of violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank as "terrorists," warning that these practices severely damage Israel's image.
In June, 14 UN rapporteurs warned that the sharp escalation in the pace of "settler terrorism" with the support and complicity of the Israeli state in the occupied Palestinian territories poses an existential danger to Palestinian communities.
About 750,000 settlers live in 156 settlements and 360 outposts in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, committing almost daily terrorist attacks aimed at forcibly displacing Palestinians from their lands.
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