Three Palestinians were injured on Saturday after illegal armed Israeli settlers opened fire during an attack on a village in the occupied West Bank, local media said.
A group of illegal armed settlers, backed by Israeli forces, attacked residents near the village of Al-Minya, southeast of Bethlehem in the southern West Bank, and fired live bullets at them, wounding three in the lower limbs, Zayed Kawazbeh, head of the village council, told the official news agency Wafa.
The injured were hospitalised for medical attention.
Kawazbeh said illegal settlers also brought their livestock to graze among Palestinian olive trees, describing the move as “a deliberate provocation aimed at displacing residents and seizing lands adjacent to nearby settlements.”
He added that Israeli forces were present at the scene and provided protection to the illegal settlers, heightening fear and tension among villagers.
The attack came shortly after illegal settlers attacked Palestinians harvesting olives in the village of Burin, south of Nablus, and assaulted several of them.
Highest level of illegal settler attacks since 2020