On 27 October 2025, eight masked settlers with clubs attacked the home of Wafa and Mahmoud Daramin in Wadi Ejheish, the South Hebron Hills. The couple and their four children, including a six-month-old baby, fled inside and locked the door.
For about 10 minutes, settlers tried to break in, shouting “Open the door!”, smashing windows, and spraying pepper spray inside. They also smashed the family’s car and damaged a security camera. Others broke into the sheep pen, killed 10 sheep, injured four more and set fire to hay.
The family, and especially the children, struggled to breathe. When Mahmoud’s brothers arrived, the settlers fled. The family was taken to Yatta Governmental Hospital and treated with oxygen masks.
Israel’s occupation and apartheid regime enables daily settler violence as a means to drive Palestinians from their land and advance the ethnic cleansing of the West Bank.