Israeli settlers escalate attacks in Masafer Yatta under army protection – Middle East Monitor

Israeli settlers this morning carried out acts of vandalism and destruction in the Masafer Yatta region, located south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank, reported Wafa news agency.

Osama Makhamra, a Palestinian community activist, stated that settlers targeted farmland owned by the Al-Hathalin family in the village of Umm Al-Khair, uprooting newly planted olive saplings and dismantling the protective fencing around the area.

In a separate assault, settlers…