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<\/a><\/p>\nPublished On 9 May 20269 May 2026<\/p>\n
Israeli settlers have launched another wave of raids in the occupied West Bank, with houses and cars set on fire and a Palestinian child attacked.<\/p>\n
The Palestinian Wafa news agency reported that a man and his child were attacked with \u201csharp instruments\u201d in the village of Khirbet Shuweika, south of Hebron, on Friday.<\/p>\n
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The father and child were taken to hospital due to head injuries.<\/p>\n
Israeli settlers torched a home in the village of al-Lubban Asharqiya, south of Nablus, after which members of the Palestinian Civil Defence arrived to extinguish the blaze.<\/p>\n
In Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah, Wafa cited security sources that the settlers \u201cstormed the outskirts of the village, burned a citizen\u2019s vehicle, and wrote racist slogans on the walls of houses\u201d.<\/p>\n
In the village of al-Asa\u2019asa in Jenin, Israeli forces forced residents to exhume a newly buried body and take it elsewhere. They claimed the first site was too close to an illegal Israeli settlement.<\/p>\n
Israeli settlers also attacked a Palestinian man in the town of Beit Fajjar, south of Bethlehem, and stole his mobile phone.<\/p>\n
A group of Palestinians were picnicking in the Burak Sulayman (Solomon\u2019s Pools) area, south of Bethlehem, but were forced to leave after Israeli forces fired stun grenades at them.<\/p>\n
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society treated two people for tear gas inhalation and evacuated five others from the scene after the attack.<\/p>\n
\u2018Tear gas and sound bombs\u2019<\/p>\n
In the town of Tuqu, southeast of Bethlehem, the mayor, Taysir Abu Mufreh, told Wafa that Israeli forces fired \u201ctear gas and sound bombs\u201d at a group of worshippers who were leaving a local mosque and locked a number of them inside.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Israeli forces arrested four Palestinian men in the town of Battir, west of Bethlehem, while they were hiking near a railway line. The following day, three more Palestinians were arrested during a raid on the city of Nablus.<\/p>\n
Settlers attacked the town of Silwad, northeast of Ramallah, leading to clashes when residents confronted them.<\/p>\n
Human rights groups say Israeli authorities have allowed the settlers to operate with total impunity<\/a> in their attacks against Palestinians.<\/p>\n