Summary

On Saturday, residents across the country spent long hours in shelters, to which they were frequently directed in order to protect themselves from Iranian missile and drone attacks. Iran’s retaliation also fueled an incitement campaign on social media and in media outlets supportive of, PM Nethanyhou targeting the activities of Looking the Occupation in the Eye and other human rights activists.

Oded Paporish and his colleague Adi Cohen were brutally beaten with clubs and iron bars in the village of Qusra and airlifted to Beilinson Hospital. Adi was rushed to the intensive care unit and remains hospitalized. Oded was released and later posted the following message online:

“We will continue to maintain a protective presence, stand alongside Palestinian communities, and oppose ethnic cleansing. To the regime of occupation and its terror affiliates in the West Bank we say: You will not stop us. We will continue to stand before you with determined presence.”

Even if the Iranian threat is removed in the near future, this will not guarantee Israel’s secure future so long as the occupation, its settlers, its financiers, and its active and silent supporters dictate the country’s actions and values.

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Sunday – Across the West Bank

Dozens of young settlers gathered in the center of the town of Hawara, dancing and singing to mark the second anniversary of the memory of the killing of two settlers from Har Bracha, Hillel and Yagel Yaniv, who were shot while driving on the road that runs through the town. Following the shooting two years ago, hundreds of settlers rampaged through Hawara and neighboring Za’tara, attacking residents and setting fire to dozens of vehicles and homes. One resident was shot dead, approximately 30 Palestinians were injured by beatings or stone-throwing, and about 350 others suffered from smoke inhalation.

A herd of settlers’ cattle grazed on the sprouting wheat fields of residents of Al-Hadidiya. During the night, settlers set fire to the entrance of the mosque in the village of Tel, south of Nablus. The words “Revenge” and “Price Tag” were spray-painted on its walls.

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Monday

An outpost was established adjacent to the home of Abd’s family in Fasayil al-Wusta, north of al-Auja. Settlers, including women, are present there with a herd of cattle. During the night they shine powerful lights at the house, and during the day they play loud music, hold picnics nearby despite Ramadan, and bring the herd close to the home. These tactics resemble those used in Ras Ein al-Auja, Muarrajat, and al-Mughayyir a-Dhir, which led to the expulsion of communities. In Fasayil, the family cannot be legally expelled due to a Supreme Court ruling preventing it; therefore, attempts are being made to drive them out through terror.

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Tuesday

Activists from Looking the Occupation in the Eye began maintaining a protective presence on the outskirts of the town of Aqraba, in Khirbet a-Tawil. Local residents keep sheep there and have also sown fields. Residents of nearby outposts harass them and send their herds into the planted fields.

An attack was reported in Susiya in Masafer Yatta: four homes in which residents were sleeping were set on fire.

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Wednesday

The report “Settlers in Uniform,” prepared by the organization Yesh Din, was published (link below).

Another family left the community of Khirbet Samra, which has lived for decades beneath a military base established near the Umm Zuka nature reserve. Two weeks ago, a settlers’ tent—housing minors and an ATV—was set up along Route Alon near the community. Since then, daily life has been severely disrupted. See below the community’s public appeal.

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Thursday

The small outpost in Fasayil expanded, with many visitors arriving, including the security coordinator of Mevo’ot Yericho and heads of other outposts. Toward the end of the day, large parts of the outpost were dismantled and removed by its founders.

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Friday

Four settlers attacked three activists from Looking the Occupation in the Eye in Qusra, not far from Nablus. Two of the assaulted activists were evacuated by helicopter to hospital. Adi Cohen remains hospitalized; Oded Paporish was released the following day. (See news item on the subject on this website).

Immediately afterward, the same rioters arrived in the village of Jalud, set fire to six homes and a car, and looted seven houses. According to activists’ reports, soldiers present at the scene did not intervene but instead blocked the entrance to the village, preventing assistance from arriving.

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Saturday

Iran War 2.

Another violent attack took place in Qusra against local residents.

In Khirbet a-Tawil, settlers sent a herd accompanied by a minor shepherd into a sown field; activists pushed the herd away. Later, additional adults and minors from nearby outposts arrived at the scene.

At night, dozens of settlers entered Hawara under military protection to celebrate the death of Khamenei.

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Documents

“Settlers in Uniform” report by Yesh Din

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Statement from the Residents of Khirbet Samra

“We Are Staying on Our Land…”

To our people, to all human rights institutions and humanitarian organizations,

Khirbet Samra is currently experiencing a systematic and planned attack by settlers—a massive assault that is almost impossible to withstand. We are in a daily battle aimed at uprooting us from our land. Our sheep are driven away from the grazing lands that are our sole source of livelihood. Our fields and wheat crops, irrigated by the sweat of our brows, are trampled as settlers bring their cattle to graze and destroy our labor. The encroachment reaches the threshold of our homes; settlers are only a few meters away, seeking to terrorize us and force us to abandon our ancestral land.

What is harder than the daily assaults is the feeling that we have nowhere to turn—that no one sees us.

Therefore, we turn to you and say:

No one addresses us. No one asks, “What happened to you? How did you endure today?” It is as though Khirbet Samra has been forgotten and left to face its fate alone.

We, the residents of Khirbet Samra, call upon all official bodies and international institutions:

Please come to the area to witness the riots firsthand and to document the incursions and harassment at the very edge of our homes.

Please help us purchase fodder, as we can no longer access grazing lands as we did for years. Help us protect what remains of our agricultural crops. We need support to remain on our land despite being denied access to our pastures and fields.

Assist us in legal proceedings against the attackers and bring media attention to Samra, which stands firm against attempts to eliminate it.

Our message to the world:

We are staying here—not because the conditions are easy, but because this land is our identity and our existence.

We will not leave, but we need help to strengthen us.

Residents of Khirbet Samra

(Khirbet Samra is located near Route Alon [578] in the northern Jordan Valley, not far from the settlement of Maskiyot.)