{"id":23365,"date":"2026-02-24T01:21:53","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/mehrnews_en\/68588774122228539845\/"},"modified":"2026-02-24T01:21:53","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T21:51:53","slug":"68588774122228539845","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/mehrnews_en\/68588774122228539845\/","title":{"rendered":"Israeli Media Acknowledges Surge in Attacks by Settlers in the West Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a report by Mehr News Agency, citing the Russia Today network, the Haaretz newspaper published in the occupied territories reveals that settler attacks in the West Bank have surged by approximately 23% in January this year compared to the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>This alarming report comes on the heels of Palestinian sources announcing that occupiers have erected new iron barriers at the entrance of the Beit Ummar settlement in the West Bank, effectively closing the last remaining access point.News outlets have reported that Israeli military forces raided the town of Ya&#8217;bad, located southwest of Jenin in northern West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, Palestinian sources have indicated that a group of Israeli settlers cut down 21 olive trees in the village of Al-Mughayer, situated east of Ramallah in central West Bank. Local reports state that these trees, over 50 years old, belonged to a resident of the nearby village of Abu Falah.In another incident Palestinian sources reported that an armed Israeli settler in the Masafer Yatta area of Hebron intruded upon citizens&#8217; lands releasing his flock onto their agricultural fields and subsequently attacking the residents of the area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Israeli media outlet reports a significant rise in settler attacks in the West Bank, highlighting escalating tensions in the region.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-palestine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23365\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ghodsnama.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}