On Friday, an Israeli colonizer shot a Palestinian young man during a settler invasion into Burqa village, east of Ramallah in the central occupied West Bank.
Media sources said that a group of armed paramilitary settlers stormed the northern part of the village, while several Palestinian young men rushed to confront the attacking colonizers.
Sources added that the armed colonizers opened fire with live rounds, shooting a young man in the leg; he was transported to hospital for treatment.
Meanwhile, in the northern West Bank, a group of Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian farmers in the village of Douma, southeast of Nablus, on Friday.
Suleiman Dawabsha, the head of Douma village council, told WAFA News Agency that illegal colonizers infiltrated the western part of the village, and assaulted Palestinian farmers harvesting their olives.
Furthermore, Israeli colonizers from the newly established outpost in the town of Battir, northwest of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank.
Local activist, Omar al-Qaisi, told WAFA that settlers, under the protection of Israeli forces, razed citizens’ land in the town, before local Palestinians confronted the invading settlers and army.
Al-Qaisi added that occupation soldiers prevented the landowners from defending their land and opened fire into the air, in addition to detaining the young man, Khaled Jawad al-Qaisi, 25, for several hours before releasing him.
