\n\tLONDON: Israeli forces detained a Palestinian herder on Wednesday in the village of Al-Rashaydeh, east of Bethlehem, days after Jewish settlers attacked him while he was grazing sheep, according to Wafa, the official Palestinian news agency affiliated with the PLO.<\/p>\n
\n\tBakr Rashaydeh, head of the village council, told Wafa that Israeli forces detained Khalil Rashaydeh, 45, after raiding and searching his home.<\/p>\n
\n\tWafa reported that settlers assaulted and injured Rashaydeh and several other Palestinian herders on Sunday, June 28.<\/p>\n
\n\tSettler attacks on Palestinians have risen sharply in 2026, with the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reporting an average of six attacks a day.<\/p>\n
\n\tRights groups and UN reports say pressure from Israeli forces and settlers has pushed Palestinian herding communities to leave their areas.<\/p>\n
\n\tThey also say Israeli forces often facilitate settler attacks by accompanying or shielding settlers, failing to stop assaults, and arresting or dispersing Palestinians instead.<\/p>\n
\n\tIsrael rejects those allegations, saying the military acts to maintain security, condemns violence and reviews claims of misconduct.<\/p>\n
\n\tSeparately, Amnesty International said in a June 10 report that from late 2022 to late 2025, Israel \u201ccommitted serious violations of international human rights law and international humanitarian law in the context of an ethnic cleansing campaign targeting Palestinian Bedouin and herding communities in Area C\u201d of the occupied West Bank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LONDON: Israeli forces detained a Palestinian herder on Wednesday in the village of Al-Rashaydeh, east of Bethlehem, days…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":234153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-234152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}