Settlers attack Bedouin shepherds near Khan al-Ahmar

Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian shepherds in the al-Hathroura area near Khan al-Ahmar, east of occupied Jerusalem, on Wednesday, forcing them away from their grazing land under the watch of an occupation regime that continues to enable such violence.

The Jerusalem Governorate said settlers blocked the shepherds from tending to their flocks, in yet another attempt to drive Bedouin communities off their land through intimidation and physical attacks.

Last month alone, settlers carried out 621 recorded assaults across the occupied West Bank, according to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission.

Nablus bore the brunt with 133 attacks, followed by Hebron with 112, and Ramallah and al-Bireh with 93, a sharp escalation in settler terrorism targeting Palestinian villages and Bedouin communities as Israel’s colonisation project intensifies.