FILE- Residents of the Nur Shams refugee camp, near Tulkarem in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, and foreign solidarity activists gather at the entrance of the camp during a protest demanding the right to return to their homes. AFP
Security and medical sources told WAFA news agency that about 10 masked Israeli settlers entered a house where the foreign activists were staying on Sunday morning.
The settlers reportedly beat the solidarity activists and stole personal belongings, including passports and mobile phones. The injured activists were taken to a hospital for treatment.
According to WAFA, three of the hospitalized activists are Italian citizens, while the fourth is Canadian.
In a separate incident, Israeli settlers vandalized agricultural land in the Al-Farisiya area of the northern Jordan Valley, damaging irrigation networks serving dozens of dunums of farmland.
Settler attacks on Palestinians and their property in the northern Jordan Valley have continued as part of efforts to pressure Palestinian families to leave their homes and land.
On Sunday, settlers also smashed four vehicles in the town of Yasuf, east of Salfit, vandalizing the property and farmland of Palestinian citizens northwest of Nablus, including by cutting irrigation water lines.
A United Nations report recorded 264 settler attacks in October 2025, the highest monthly figure since the start of the Israeli occupation in 1967.
The rise in settler attacks came as the Israeli occupation army continued on Sunday its raid-and-arrest operations in several West Bank cities and in Jerusalem, detaining dozens of Palestinians.
The Palestinian Prisoners’ Club reported on Friday that the Israeli army detains hundreds of Palestinians each week from across the occupied West Bank, interrogates and abuses them, and later releases most of them.
Ongoing Israeli assaults in the West Bank have resulted in the killing of more than 1,085 Palestinians, the injury of nearly 11,000 others, and the arrest of over 20,500 people since the start of Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza in October 2023.
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