Settlers Attack Palestinian Homes in South Hebron Hills

at around 8:30 A.M., while Hussein (65) and Wissam (60) Nawaj’ah, residents of Kh. Susiya in the South Hebron Hills, sat down to breakfast, they heard their dog barking. When they stepped out to see what was happening, they saw four settlers coming from the south and advancing toward the home of their neighbors, ‘Imran Nawaj’ah and his wife and children. The couple managed to go back inside and shut the doors just as many more settlers arrived, about 17, most of them teens, with some wearing face covers. The settlers began attacking the two houses with stones. The occupants got out and ran to a nearby hill, where they watched the settlers pelting the homes with stones, smashing flowerpots and uprooting vegetables. One of the settlers used a hoe to damage the wall of a storage shed, cut open sacks of barley stored inside it, and spilled their contents. The settlers also beat Hussein Nawaj’ah’s dog on the back with a club. Meanwhile, neighbors and other residents of the village gathered at the scene and tried to repel the settlers with stones. The settlers left only after they heard the residents calling the police. Police officers who arrived 30 minutes later, after the settlers had already left, documented the damage, suggested the residents file a complaint at the police station and left.