On Saturday, illegal Israeli paramilitary colonizers carried out several attacks resulting in the injury of several Palestinian citizens in the West Bank governorates of Nablus, Ramallah, and Hebron. Settlers invaded the village of Mikhmas, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, while soldiers assaulted foreign activists and declared the area a closed military zone.
In the afternoon, a group of colonizers assaulted three Palestinians, including an elderly man, near Beit Furik town, southeast of Nablus in the northern West Bank.
Media sources reported that many settlers stormed the area, prompting locals to confront them, before the colonizers brutally assaulted three citizens.
The sources identified two of the wounded citizens as Ahed Melitat and Najeh Sabah Nassasra, while the third citizen was a 70-year-old elderly man; they were all transported to a medical center in Beit Furik town.
Occupation forces intervened after the attack, firing tear gas canisters and concussion grenades at citizens; no further injuries were reported.
Meanwhile, several illegal Israeli colonizers, under army protection, stormed the town of Qusra, south of Nablus, sparking protests.
Hani Awda, the Mayor of Qusra, told the WAFA News Agency that colonizers attacked citizens in the western part of the town, before soldiers opened heavy fire with live rounds; no injuries were reported.
Furthermore, illegal colonizers injured a woman, her son, and two young men, while soldiers abducted four citizens in the town of Birzeit, north of Ramallah, in the central West Bank.
Media sources reported that a group of settlers attacked a citizen’s home on the outskirts of the town on Saturday evening, hurling rocks at citizens who attempted to defend their home.
The sources added that the woman Najat Emil Jadallah was transported to the hospital in Ramallah, after she was struck in the head with a rock; her injury was described as serious.
Three other citizens sustained injuries, including the wounded woman’s son, Ala’ Hani Jadallah, and the young men Nafiz Bassam Eid and Eid Yousef Eid.
Occupation forces abused and abducted the young men Eid Bassam Eid, Basem Marwan Basem Barbar, and Saeb Yousef Eid, taking them to an undisclosed location.
At dawn Sunday, illegal paramilitary colonizers infiltrated the nearby village of Atara, north of Ramallah, and torched multiple Palestinian vehicles, inflicting significant damage.
Moreover, in the southern West Bank, Israeli colonizers wounded one farmer while he was grazing his livestock, and soldiers caused others to suffer inhalation injuries in the Hebron governorate.
WAFA correspondent reported that the colonizers invaded the Khallat al-Natsh area of Jabal Jawhar, east of Hebron, and hurled rocks at farmers while they were working on their own lands.
He added that several citizens sustained injuries as a result of the settler attack, including Sadiq Idris, who sustained moderate injuries after being struck in the head with a rock; he was transported to the hospital for treatment.
Attia Al-Adham, the Mayor of Beit Ula, northwest of Hebron, told WAFA that many colonizers, under army protection, infiltrated the Wadi Al-Raqati – Marah Abu Asida area, near the Apartheid wall, west of Beit Ula town.
Al-Adham added that when local citizens attempted to confront the invading colonizers, the army opened fire with tear gas canisters, causing several Palestinians to suffer inhalation injuries.
On Saturday, armed Israeli colonizers invaded the Khilat al-Sidra Bedouin community near Mikhmas village, northeast of occupied Jerusalem, while occupation forces declared the area a “closed military zone” and evacuated international activists.
Media sources reported that several colonizers attacked Palestinian farmers in the village of Mikhmas and blocked them from working on their own land.
Later, a large group of colonizers invaded the Khilat al-Sidra Bedouin community at the same time that Israeli forces evacuated international solidarity activists from the area, according to the Jerusalem Governorate.
It added that before midnight on Saturday, Israeli colonizers stormed the Bedouin community and damaged Palestinian-owned barracks, livestock pens, solar panels, and surveillance cameras.
