RAMALLAH, Saturday, June 24, 2023 (WAFA) – Several homes were set on fire, an ambulance was partially damaged and a number of journalists survived a shooting attack today by dozens of armed Israeli settlers who attacked the village of Umm Safa, to the north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.
Marwan Sabbah, the mayor of the village, told WAFA that scores of army-backed fanatic Israeli settlers broke into the village and fired live shots indiscriminately at homes and properties in yet a new attack, resulting in the death of a private-owned horse and partially setting a number of houses on fire in the village.
The shooting attack also caused damage to many vehicles, including an ambulance, and a paramdeic was lightly injured by a gunshot while moving a patient in urgent condition to a hospital.
Mohammad Radi, a Palestine TV cameraman, added that the settlers fired gunshots at him and his colleague, Falantina Abu Hamed, as they were covering the terrorist attack by nearly 70 fanatic Israeli settlers on the village. He said one gunshot directly hit and damaged their camera.
Radi said his colleague, Falantina, and he miraculously survived the shooting attack by the rampaging settlers.
Meantime, another group of fanatic Israeli settlers physically assaulted a number of Palestinian civilians and destroyed six tents in the village of Al-Mughayir, to the northeast of Ramallah.
Witnesses told WAFA that a number of settlers stormed Ein er-Rashrash neighborhood on the outskirts of the village, brutally assaulting nomadic Palestinian Bedouins camping there. The attack resulted in the injury of an 80-year-old Palestinian elderly, who was rushed to a nearby hospital in the aftermath of the attack.
According to the sources, an Israeli army force stormed the neighborhood in the aftermath of the attack, and instead of arresting the attacking settlers, they arrested three Palestinian residents there.
Attacks and acts of terrorism against Palestinians by Israeli settler militias have seen a terrible rise across the occupied West Bank, including Jerusalem, since last week with a green light from the far-right Israeli government.
One Palestinian was killed last week and many others were injured in a savage attack by Israeli settlers on the town of Turmus Ayya, to the northeast of Ramallah.
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