RAMALLAH — Eight Palestinians were injured Sunday in a series of assaults by illegal Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to local rights groups and residents.

The Bedouin rights group Al-Baidar said settlers attacked the Al-Arara Bedouin community north of occupied East Jerusalem with stones and sticks, injuring seven people.

The attackers also burned container homes and caused significant property damage.

Al-Baidar warned that the ongoing assaults pose “a direct threat to the stability of the people and their presence on their lands and pave the way for forced displacement.”

In the southern West Bank, settlers assaulted Palestinians in the Umm al-Khair village of Hebron while they were working on their land, local sources told Anadolu. One young man was hospitalized after sustaining injuries to his face and head.

Settler and army attacks across the occupied West Bank have surged since October 2023, killing more than 1,069 Palestinians and injuring 10,300 others, according to Palestinian figures.

The Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission said Israeli forces and settlers carried out 766 attacks against Palestinians, their homes, property and livelihoods across the West Bank in October alone.

In a landmark advisory opinion last July, the International Court of Justice declared Israel’s occupation of Palestinian territory illegal and called for the evacuation of all settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. — Agencies