Mikhmas (Palestinian Territories) (AFP) – “What happened here was an unusual attack. 60–70 settlers entered the encampment all at once”, says Musa Kaabneh, a resident of the Khirbet al-Sidra Bedouin community, where settlers set fire to two homes and two cars near the village of Mikhmas, east of Ramallah. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society says two Palestinians and two international solidarity activists were injured in the attack. While attacks by Israeli settlers affect communities across the West Bank, the semi-nomadic Bedouins are among the territory’s most vulnerable, saying they suffer from forced displacement due in large part to a lack of law enforcement.
