Palestinian report: 1,965 attacks carried out by Israeli forces and settlers in February

The head of the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Moayad Shaaban, said that Israeli forces and settlers carried out a total of 1,965 attacks during February, continuing a series of ongoing violence by the occupation state against the Palestinian people, their land, and property.

Shaaban explained in the commission’s monthly report, carried by the Palestinian news agency WAFA on Tuesday, that the Israeli army carried out 1,454 attacks, while settlers carried out 511. 

He added that the majority of the attacks were concentrated in Hebron governorate with 421 incidents, followed by Nablus with 340, Ramallah and al-Bireh with 320, and Jerusalem with 210.

He said the attacks included physical assaults, uprooting trees, burning fields, seizing property, and demolishing homes and agricultural facilities. He added that Israeli forces continued to close large areas of Palestinian land on security grounds, while settlers were being enabled to expand their activities.

Shaaban said that these escalating violations confirm that what is happening is not isolated incidents, but rather an organized methodology aimed at emptying the land of its owners and imposing a comprehensive racist settlement system.

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