Israeli settlers storm Palestinian village and assault 60-year-old man near Bethlehem

Israeli settlers stormed the Palestinian village of al-Minya near Bethlehem, erecting tents and injuring a Palestinian man, Wafa news agency reported on Monday.

The head of the village council, Zayed Kawazba, told Wafa that settlers erected four tents in the village centre, uprooted 1,500 olive tree saplings and assaulted a 60-year-old Palestinian man.

The settlers attacked Abdel Mahdi Matour with sticks, leaving him with a broken jaw and a fractured hand, according to the Palestinian Red Crescent Society.

Illegal settler outposts have ballooned since October 2023, forcibly displacing Palestinians from their lands. In the first half of 2025 alone, 23 new settler outposts have been established across the occupied West Bank.

In the same period, settlers have conducted over 2000 attacks on Palestinian communities, killing four people, according to Wafa.