Israeli forces shot a Palestinian man, and abducted another while providing protection for illegal colonizers who attacked citizens’ homes in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.

Media sources said that on Wednesday evening a group of settlers, under the protection of the occupation forces, attacked Palestinian citizens’ homes in the village of Qusra, south of Nablus.

While local citizens tried to confront the attacking colonizers, before occupation soldiers fired live rounds, concussion grenades, and tear gas canisters, shooting a young man with live ammunition.

Sources added that soldiers abducted an unidentified Palestinian man during the settler attack on the town.

In related news, five Palestinians sustained injuries during a settler attack near the village of Wad Rahhal, south of Bethlehem.