NABLUS, Monday, February 12, 2024 (WAFA) – A Palestinian young man and a child were injured by gunfire tonight fired by Israeli terror colonists during an attack on the village of Asira al-Qabliya, located south of Nablus in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.

The head of the Asira al-Qabliya Village Council, Hafez Saleh, reported that colonists from the Yitzhar colony—built on stolen Palestinian land near the village—launched an assault on the eastern part of the village that involved intense gunfire.

The terror attack resulted in a 20-year-old man being shot in the abdomen with live ammunition and a 16-year-old child sustaining injuries to his hand. Both victims were subsequently transferred to hospital for medical treatment.

Saleh added that the colonists set a parked vehicle on fire. Furthermore, they targeted a house with Molotov cocktails, causing a blaze to erupt in the house. No further injuries were reported so far.

Terror attacks by Israeli colonist militias are a common feature of the daily life under colonial settler occupation in the West Bank, but have seen exponential growth in recent months with the rise of hard-right fascism in Israel's government coalition.

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