Soldiers attack students on their way to school in Hebron

Dozens of Palestinian students and residents of the old town of Hebron sustained suffocation on Monday after Israeli soldiers fired teargas canisters at them while on their way to school and at homes in the Israeli-controlled section of the southern West Bank city of Hebron, according to local sources.


They said the soldiers fired teargas canisters at schools, including a kindergarten, and homes located near a military checkpoint causing dozens of suffocation cases and panic among the children and their families.

Tension has been high in the occupied city in the last few days after tens of thousands of fanatic settlers stormed the city and some attacked families in their homes and shops in the occupied section.


A child was also injured in the head from stones thrown by settlers who seem to have been emboldened in their attacks and taking over of Palestinian homes and land following the US declaration that settlements are not inconsistent with international law.

Scores of settlers defile Aqsa Mosque

Dozens of Jewish settlers on Sunday desecrated the Aqsa Mosque’s courtyards under tight police protection.

According to local sources, groups of settlers received explanations about the alleged temple mount as they were touring the Mosque’s courtyards.

The Aqsa Mosque is exposed to daily desecration by Jewish settlers in the morning and the afternoon except on Fridays and Saturdays.

The Israeli police close al-Maghariba Gate, which is used by Jews to enter the Mosque, at 10:30 am after the settlers complete their morning tours at the holy site. Later in the afternoon, the same gate is reopened for evening tours by settlers.

During the presence of settlers inside the Mosque compound, entry restrictions are imposed on Muslim worshipers at the entrances leading to the Mosque and their IDs are seized until they leave the holy place.

Stone-throwing settlers injure toddler in the head

A Palestinian toddler sustained a moderate injury in the head when hardcore Jewish settlers, under Israeli occupation army protection, attacked Palestinians’ homes with stones in the neighborhood of Tel Rumeida in Hebron, south of the West Bank, local sources said.


Hundreds of settlers protected by army forced their way into the Old City of Hebron, attacking Palestinian civilians and storekeepers, shouting profanities at them and throwing stones at homes.

1.5-year-old Mohammad Hasan Tanina was hit by the rampaging settlers with a rock in his head while inside his family home. He sustained a moderate injury, and was rushed to hospital for medical treatment.

Tension has been high in the city since yesterday as extremist settlers attacked homes of Palestinian families in the occupied section of the city, injuring several people.

Harassment of Palestinians in that area is a daily occurrence, particularly following the departure of the international monitoring team, the Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH), earlier in February after Israel refused to extend the team's mandate.

10 Palestinians injured in settler attacks in Hebron

Dozens of Israeli settlers on Friday night attacked Palestinian homes in different areas in Hebron, Occupied West Bank, injuring at least 10 Palestinian citizens.

Local sources said that two Palestinian citizens suffered bruises after Israeli settlers attacked them near Abu Al-Rish checkpoint in Hebron and were transferred to a nearby hospital for treatment.


In the southern areas of Hebron, 8 citizens were injured after Israeli settlers, escorted by armed soldiers, attacked them with batons and pepper gas.

According to local residents, five Palestinian youths were detained and harassed by the settlers in a shop in Al-Sahla area.

Late on Friday, hundreds of Israeli settlers coming from different settlements in the Occupied West Bank stormed Hebron City to perform Talmudic rituals at the Ibrahmi Mosque. Meanwhile, further restrictions were imposed on the Palestinian residents of the area.

Ibrahimi mosque in Hebron closed to Muslims as thousands of settlers storm

The Israeli military government closed today the Ibrahimi mosque in the southern West Bank city of Hebron to Muslim worshippers as thousands of Jewish settlers converged on the old town of city, which is under full Israeli military rule, to mark what is known as Sarah holiday, according to local sources.


Tension has been high in the city since yesterday as extremist settlers attacked homes of Palestinian families in the occupied section of the city, injuring several people.

More settlers flocked to the city this morning and specifically to the Ibrahimi mosque, also known as Cave of the Patriarchs where the prophet Abraham, Sarah and others are believed buried.

Settlers were seen yesterday placing stones with Jewish inscriptions on walls and arches in the old town of Hebron in an effort to make believe that the city is historically Jewish.

West Bank vehicles vandalized in new settler attack

Some 50 Palestinian vehicles were vandalized in the latest spate of Israeli settler attacks in the West Bank district of Salfit.


Israeli settlers slashed the tires of some 50 Palestinian vehicles and spray-painted hate graffiti in Kafr Ad-Dik village, west of the West Bank city of Salfit.

Mayor of Kafr Ad-Dik Ibrahim Issa Ad-Dik said that a group of Israeli settlers sneaked their way into the village, slashed the tires of some 50 vehicles, and scrawled anti-Palestinian hate graffiti on several vehicles and the external walls of houses.


Graffiti reading “A closed military zone” was scrawled in Hebrew at the external wall of a villager’s house, according to Ad-Dik, who noted that this was the second time the village was targeted by settlers in a year.


Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.

Settlers' violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.

Over 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law.