Israeli settlers wound Palestinian baby in West Bank attack

Israeli settlers wound Palestinian baby in West Bank attack Israeli settlers on Thursday attacked homes and wounded a Palestinian baby in the occupied West Bank, said Bedouin rights group al-Baydar. The eight-month-old baby was wounded and hospitalised after Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian homes and property with stones late on Wednesday in the al-Rabia area of Sa’ir town, northeast of Hebron in the southern West Bank, the rights group said. Settlers also uprooted dozens of olive trees in the town of Dayr Balut, west of Salfit in the central West Bank, according to the Palestinian news agency Wafa, which said the attack caused extensive damage to farmland in the area. Israeli settlers also plowed about one acre of land planted with olives in Turmus Ayya town, north of Ramallah. On Wednesday, settlers plowed about 1.2 acres of farmland in the same town. Since October 2023, Israeli forces and illegal settlers have killed at least 1,102 Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and detained around 21,000.