Israeli fire and settler attacks injure Palestinians in the occupied West Bank Israeli occupation forces shot and wounded a young Palestinian man in Qalqilya in the occupied West Bank on Monday evening, Wafa reported. Sources told Wafa that Israeli gunfire resulted in wounding the man’s foot with shrapnel while he was near the apartheid wall in the northern part of the city. Paramedics transferred him to hospital, where doctors described his condition as stable. Elsewhere, settlers injured a child and an elderly man during an attack east of Bethlehem on Monday evening. Security sources said a group of settlers raided the Khala’il al-Luz area, assaulted homes and violently beat 80-year-old Ibrahim Ahmed Hassan Abayat, leaving him with serious bruising to his shoulder and back. The same attack injured 14-year-old Mustafa Abu Jalghif, who suffered fractures to his limbs. Residents say settler violence has escalated across eastern Bethlehem governorate in recent months, particularly in Khala’il al-Luz. The area has faced repeated assaults, home raids and efforts to impose control by force, carried out under the protection of Israeli occupation forces. Communities near colonial outposts east of Bethlehem also report ongoing night raids, restrictions on access to farmland and attacks on farmers and shepherds. These measures have deepened fear and instability, hitting elderly people and children hardest. Data from the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission shows that Israeli forces and settlers carried out 2,144 attacks in November alone. The occupation army accounted for 1,523 incidents, while settlers carried out 621, with the highest numbers recorded in Ramallah and al-Bireh, Hebron, Bethlehem and Nablus.