Illegal Israeli colonizers attacked, on Monday, several Palestinian citizens in the northern Jordan Valley, while occupation forces abducted five Palestinians after they had been assaulted by the settlers.
On Monday afternoon, illegal Israeli colonizers attacked a Palestinian man while he was traveling on the Al-Ma’rajat Road, northwest of Jericho in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank
According to Nasser Anani, the director of Jericho Governmental Hospital, Israeli settlers pepper sprayed and assaulted a 58-year-old Palestinian man, causing bruises.
Media sources added that colonizers hurled rocks at Palestinian-owned vehicles on the same road, causing damage, while eyewitnesses said that other settlers stole a truck with Palestinian license plates, northwest of Jericho.
Meanwhile, colonizers assaulted, on Monday evening, five Palestinian young men on the Al-Ma’rajat Road, and destroyed the vehicle they were in.
Media sources said that after colonizers attacked the young men, occupation forces arrested the victims of the assault, rather than the assailants.
Soldiers abducted Fouad Fathi Fayez Abu Alia, Murad Fathi Fayez Abu Alia, Ali Murad Fathi Abu Alia, Raed Odeh Fathi Abu Alia, and Muhammad Shehada Kaabneh.
Furthermore, Israeli colonizers invaded, on Monday afternoon, the “Arab Al-Mleihat” community, northwest of Jericho, and assaulted two Palestinian citizens.
According to Hassan Mleihat, the general supervisor of the “Al-Baidar” organization for defending the rights of Bedouins, colonists stormed the community, attacked the citizens, Jamal Suleiman Mleihat and Suleiman Atallah Mleihat, and grazed their livestock on Palestinian-owned farm lands.
In the southern West Bank, Israeli colonizers, under the protection of the occupation army, detained a Palestinian farmer and his sons, forcing them to stop working on their land in Al-Khader town, southwest of Bethlehem.
According to Ahmad Salah, a local activist, settlers and soldiers invaded the “Khallet al-Fahm” area south of the town, detained Yassin Daadou and his sons while they were cultivating their land, and forced them to stop their work and leave their own land.
