Simultaneous and coordinated attacks by settler militias and the IOF on July 31
Al-Lubban al-Sharqiya (Nablus)
On July 31 midnight, the village of al-Lubban al-Sharqiya has been subjected to a fierce campaign of raids and arrests by Israeli occupation forces, amid a heavy deployment of military checkpoints in the center of the town. More than 15 Palestinians were arrested. The occupation forces also vandalized a vehicle and raided a number of homes, ransacking their contents.
Several villages (Ramallah)
After the attack on al-Lubban al-Sharqiya, settler militias attacked Palestinians on the road linking Ramallah and Nablus, and rampaged with night attacks on the Ramallah governorate towns of Silwad, Beitin, Abu Falah, Rammun, and Al-Mughayyir (which later was put under siege by the occupation forces). These villages were attacked simultaneously by organized settler militias with the support of the occupation army.
The occupation army closed the entrances to some villages, stormed and vandalized several homes, and detained Palestinians; while settlers were setting homes and vehicles on fire, and spraying racist slogans over Palestinian properties. Settlers burned 8 houses and 15 cars and cut down more than 70 olive trees.
The Palestinian Khamis Mabrouka from Silwad was beaten by settlers and then sprayed with toxic gas, and was killed immediately by asphyxiation. Another Palestinian man has been beaten by settlers and has suffered serious injuries.
After the attacks on the several Palestinian villages at pre-dawn, settler militias and the occupation army attacked Palestinian water infrastructure in the morning.
Beit Dajan (Nablus)
The occupation army stormed and raided a private artesian water well belonging to Hajj Khalousi, Hajj Muhammad, and Hisham Hanaysheh. The Israeli occupation forces confiscated all water equipment, pumps, and electrical panels in the water well in the town of Beit Dajan.
This will directly impact approximately 120 dunams of agricultural greenhouses and dozens of dunams of crops in an area directly threatened by confiscation and settlement expansion.
The Israeli occupation is implementing its violent measures against the residents of the town of Beit Dajan, including restrictions aimed at making the lives of residents and farmers impossible. Over the past five years, at least 24,000 dunams of Beit Dajan land, or half of the village’s land area, have been confiscated.
A pastoral settlement outpost has been established on the town’s land, and hundreds of additional dunams have been confiscated two months ago under the pretext of building a settlement road linking the Nablus settlements to the Jordan Valley settlements.
Al Auja (Jericho)
Palestinians of the Shallal Al-Auja, north of Jericho, were attacked and harassed by settlers. On July 30, settlers poured ready-mix concrete in preparation for the construction of new settler-colonial units in the outpost established in the area several months ago. Settlers have also bulldozed vast tracts of Palestinian agricultural lands.
The Ongoing Nakba 1948-Today
“These operations can be carried out in the following manner: either by destroying villages (by setting fire to them, by blowing them up, and by planting mines in their rubble), and especially those population centers that are difficult to control permanently; or by mounting combing and control operations according to the following guidelines: encirclement of the villages, conducting a search inside them. In case of resistance, the armed forces must be wiped out and the population expelled outside the borders of the state.” (Plan Dalet, source: Yehuda Sluzki, The Haganah Book)