Occupied Quds – SABA:
On Sunday evening, three Palestinian citizens were injured by live gunfire during a settler attack in the eastern area of Hizma town, northeast of occupied Quds.
According to the Palestinian News Agency (WAFA), eyewitnesses said the settlers—under the protection of Israeli occupation forces stationed on the nearby main road—shot and injured two young men and a teenage boy.
The injured were identified as:
- Awda Ahmad Awda Askar
- Ghazi Badr Dawood Dar Amer
- Ahmad Mustafa (a minor)
Eyewitnesses also reported that settlers set fire to a shack belonging to citizen Afif Ahmad Suleiman Rizq Askar.
It’s worth noting that the Israeli forces had previously bulldozed and destroyed the same piece of land targeted in the attack.
Later in the evening, an elderly man and a young man sustained injuries and bruises during a similar assault by settlers on residents and homes in the village of Susiya, south of Hebron Governorate.
Human rights activist Osama Makhmara stated that armed settlers attacked homes in Susiya, located in the Masafer Yatta area, and physically assaulted residents—causing injuries under the protection of Israeli soldiers.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that 17-year-old Uday Jihad Nawajaa suffered multiple bruises and injuries after being beaten by settlers. He was transferred to a hospital for treatment.
An elderly man was also injured during the attack and was taken to Yatta Government Hospital.
Earlier on Sunday, four Palestinians—including a woman—were injured in a similar attack by armed settlers wearing Israeli military uniforms in the village of Khirbet Umm al-Khair in Masafer Yatta.
These villages and communities in Masafer Yatta face ongoing settler violence, which forms part of a broader policy of forced displacement carried out by the Israeli occupation authorities.
In a related incident on Sunday evening, settlers in the northern Jordan Valley forced Palestinian shepherds to leave their grazing lands in Khirbet Samrah.
Local sources said settlers in off-road vehicles chased and harassed the shepherds, forcing them out.
Several families in Khirbet Samrah had already begun dismantling their homes and leaving the area over the past two days, due to the rising intensity of settler attacks.
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