On Saturday, illegal Israeli settlers shot three Palestinians with live ammunition in the Bethlehem governorate, while others attacked farmers in the Ramallah and Hebron governorates.

Armed Israeli colonizers shot three Palestinians, on Saturday morning, after invading the village of Al-Minya, southeast of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank.

Zayed Qawazba, the head of the Minya village council, told the WAFA News Agency that a group of armed settlers invaded the village of Al-Minya and opened fire towards Palestinian citizens, shooting three of them in their lower limbs; they were transported to the hospital for treatment.

Qawazba added that occupation forces were present for the duration of the attack, providing security for the illegal paramilitary settlers. He said that the settlers also grazed their livestock on citizens’ land in the village.

Meanwhile, a group of armed colonizers assaulted Palestinian farmers on Saturday morning, after storming the village of Al-Fakhit in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the southern West Bank.

Osama Makhamra, a local anti-settlement activist, told the WAFA News Agency that a group of armed settlers from the Ma’on and Mitzpe Yair settlements, built on expropriated Palestinian lands, assaulted farmers after invading Al-Fakhit village.

Makhamra added that local residents attempted to confront the attackers, when occupation forces, serving as a military escort for the settlers, abducted the young man, Yasser Abu Sabha after he confronted the illegal colonizers.

In related news, several armed Israeli colonizers attacked a Palestinian family while they were picking olives on their own land in the town of Sinjil, northeast of Ramallah in the central West Bank.

Media sources reported that armed paramilitary settlers attacked the family of the farmer, Hussein Ghafri, while they were harvesting their olives, forcing them to leave their land at gunpoint.

The sources added that the colonizers stole olive harvesting equipment from the family; no injuries were reported.

 

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