Ramallah: The year 2024 witnessed a significant increase in attacks by Israeli occupation forces and settlers against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian Authority’s Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.
According to Jordan News Agency, the Commission reported a total of 16,612 attacks and violations against Palestinians, their lands, properties, and holy sites across the West Bank last year. The Commission monitors settlement activity throughout the occupied territory.
The data revealed that the occupation army was responsible for 13,641 violations, while hardline Jewish settlers carried out 2,971 attacks. The majority of these incidents occurred in Hebron, which experienced 2,934 violations, followed by Nablus with 2,531, and Ramallah and Al-Bireh with 2,224.
Settler violence was predominantly concentrated in Nablus, where 806 attacks were documented, Hebron with 657, and Ramallah and Al-Bireh with 532.
In the latest development, extremist settlers established a new settlement outpost today in the village of Qaryut, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank. Yousef Al Hajj of Qaryut Village Council reported that a group of settlers set up tents on confiscated Palestinian lands in an attempt to launch a new settlement on territory owned by Palestinians.