RAMALLAH, Tuesday, March 24, 2020 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today attacked Palestinian residents of the village of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah, injuring two, according to the head of the village council Marwan Sabbah.

He told WAFA that settlers attacked with sharp tools village farmers as they were working on their land and injured two people.

The settlers had left their cattle to graze in the village’s agricultural land, which provoked the farmers and forced them to rush to protect their land from the settlers’ animals leading to confrontations between the residents and the settlers.

Israeli soldiers in the area closed roads leading to the village and kept one of the wounded, said Sabbah, which made is difficult for them to know how he was doing.

T.R./M.K.