Violence against Palestinians
Dujarric also said humanitarian officials “are continuing to be very concerned by reports that the entire community of Khirbet at Tabban was destroyed today by Israeli forces,” one of 13 herding communities in the Masafer Yatta area of Hebron that fall within land Israeli authorities have designated as “firing zones” for military training.
He noted that “a dozen settler outposts have been established within the same area over the past two years,” with illegal settlers’ violence compounding pressure on residents to leave.
The occupied West Bank has witnessed continued escalation in Israeli military raids and illegal settlers’ attacks since Israel launched its genocide on Gaza in October 2023, alongside the expansion of illegal settlement outposts, construction of occupiers-only roads and tighter restrictions on Palestinian movement.
In Gaza, Israel has killed more than 73,000 Palestinians, mostly women and children, and wounded over 174,000 since October 2023.
It reduced most of the blockaded enclave to ruins and displaced all of the population.