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Israel settlers attacked palestinian House in the Israeli-occupied south west coast Throughout the night, children were hit with tear gas and sheep were killed, a Palestinian official said Tuesday. This was the latest increase in attacks by the colonists Palestinians in the area in recent months.
Israeli police said they had arrested five settlers.
Amir Dawoud, who directs an office that documents such attacks within the Palestinian government body called the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, said the settlers broke a door and a window of the house, firing tear gas inside, sending three Palestinian children under the age of 4 to the hospital. He said the settlers also entered the family’s sheep pen, killing three sheep and injuring four others.
Israeli police said they had arrested five settlers on suspicion of trespassing on Palestinian land, damaging property and spreading pepper spray. They said they are investigating.
CCTV video of the attack in As Samu town shared by the commission shows five masked men in black, some with sticks, approaching the house and entering. Sounds of breaking and breaking are heard, as well as the sounds of animals. Another video from inside shows masked figures attacking sheep in the stables.
Pictures taken after the incident, also shared by the commission, show broken car windows and a broken front door. Bloodied sheep lie dead while other sheep stand with blood on their wool. Pictures from inside the house show broken glass and scattered furniture.
Dawood said it was the second settler attack on the family in less than two months. He described it as “part of a systematic and ongoing pattern of settler violence targeting Palestinian civilians, their property and their means of livelihood, carried out with impunity under the protection of the Israeli occupation.”
During the October olive harvest, settlers across the region carried out an average of eight attacks per day, the highest since the UN humanitarian office began collecting data in 2006. Attacks continued into November, with the United Nations recording at least 136 attacks by 24 November.
Israel occupies the former West Bank Jerusalem and Gaza – territory claimed by the Palestinians for a future state in the 1967 war. It has settled more than 500,000 Jews in the West Bank, in addition to more than 200,000 in disputed East Jerusalem.
Israel’s government is dominated by far-right supporters of the settler movement, including Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and Cabinet Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, who oversees the country’s police force. Earlier this week, Smotrich said the Israeli Cabinet had approved a proposal for 19 new Jewish settlements, another blow to the prospect of a Palestinian state.