Ramallah, Occupied West Bank, July 20 (RHC)-- In the Occupied West Bank, at least two more Palestinians have been detained as part of a larger escalation in military raids over the past nine months.

According to reports, the number of daily raids, whether at night or in the morning, has more than tripled in these past months.  We’ve also seen an escalation in attacks by illegal Israeli settlers.

Yesterday, as the ruling at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) was being read against the Israeli occupation, settlers attacked Palestinians in the Nablus area in Huwara, burning businesses and fields.

Also in the South Hebron Hills, there was an attack by a group of Israeli settlers against a family.  A woman, who was severely beaten, is now being treated at a local hospital.

In all those attacks of Israeli settlers, the Israeli soldiers were close by defending the settlers and protecting them -- barring the Palestinians from defending themselves, which is something again referenced by the judges at the ICJ in The Hague.