Ramallah, June 1 (Petra) — Extremist Jewish settlers on Monday
established a new settlement outpost near the town of Al-Auja, north
of Jericho.

Hassan Mleihat, Chairman of Albaidar Association for the Defense of
Bedouin Rights, said in a statement that large numbers of armed
settlers brought equipment to the area and carried out bulldozing
work aimed at imposing a new colonial reality on the ground.

Mleihat said seven pastoral settlement outposts are located in
Al-Auja, describing them as among the main tools used to seize
Palestinian land and restrict residents, threatening their presence
and continuity in the northern valley and Jericho areas in favor of
Israeli settlement expansion.

In a related development, Israeli occupation forces demolished
commercial shops in the central vegetable market, known as Al-Hisbeh,
in the town of Beita, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West
Bank.

Beita Municipality said in a statement that Israeli occupation forces
raided the market at dawn, forced shop owners to remove goods and
vegetables, and then began demolishing the shops with bulldozers.

Settlers also attacked the town of Burin, south of Nablus. Burin
Municipality said several extremist Jewish settlers attacked the town
in the morning, prevented a farmer from working on his land, and
attempted to attack a home in the village before residents confronted
them.

Israeli occupation forces also carried out a series of raids across
several West Bank cities, towns, villages, and camps, as well as
occupied Jerusalem. The raids included arrests, home searches, and
field interrogations of dozens of Palestinians.

Several areas in the West Bank witnessed raids on homes and
facilities, military measures, the detention of residents, searches
inside homes, tampering with property, and field interrogations.

The Palestinian Prisoners Society said in a statement that Israeli
occupation forces detained 15 Palestinians.

//Petra// AO