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Settler Violence Torches Burqa Village and Slaughters Over 100 Bedouin Sheep
WEST BANK, JORDAN VALLEY, JUL 18 – The attack on Palestinian Bedouin livestock is part of a 13% rise in settler violence since January, causing injuries and forcing at least one family to relocate, officials said.
- Earlier this month, Israeli settlers killed 117 sheep and stole hundreds in the Jordan Valley, seemingly to chase farmers off their land.
- The United Nations described intensifying settler attacks and record mass displacements, reporting 757 settler attacks since January with a 13% increase.
- Following the overnight raid, veterinarians treated surviving sheep, with some animals shaking uncontrollably.
- The attack prompted at least one family to relocate, and Moayad Shaaban condemned it as a strategy to displace Palestinians.
- The Palestinian Health Ministry said that, as part of a wider pattern, nearly 1,000 Palestinians have been killed and over 7,000 injured since October 2023.
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In the occupied West Bank, Palestinian demonstrators were dispersed by the Israeli army on Friday, 18 July, near Raba, protesting against the installation of a new illegal outpost by Israeli settlers, who have been banned by international law and Israeli law, and have seen their number explode in the last two years, since the beginning of the war. In the village of Burqa, near Ramallah, settler violence is regularly raging. Two days ago, a huge …
On the night of Wednesday 16th to Thursday 17th July, the herd of Jean-Marc Veyrat, a breeder in Manigod, was the victim of a wolf attack in the Combin at Claudius in La Clusaz. The balance is heavy: 18 sheep of the Thônes and Marthod breed killed.
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Israeli settlers accused of killing 117 sheep in West Bank attack
By Ali SawaftaJORDAN VALLEY, West Bank (Reuters) -Palestinian Bedouins accused Israeli settlers on Friday of killing 117 sheep in an overnight attack and stealing hundreds of others in an apparent effort to chase farmers off their land in the occupied West Bank.The incident comes amid what the United Nations described this week as intensifying attacks by Jewish settlers and security forces against Palestinians in the West Bank and record mass dis
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