HEBRON, Sunday, August 25, 2024 (WAFA) – Several Palestinians were injured and others were detained on Sunday evening in an attack by colonists and Israeli occupation forces in the village of Al-Buwaib in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.

The head of the Birin Village Council, one of the villages of Masafer Yatta, Farid Burqan, told WAFA correspondent that a group of armed colonists, under the protection of the occupation forces, tried to steal sheep from the village of Al-Buwaib, and when the residents confronted them, the colonists attacked them with stones and clubs, which resulted in six citizens being injured and bruised, three of whom were detained by the occupation forces and transported in an Israeli ambulance, while the other injured were transferred to Yatta Governmental Hospital.

Burqan added that the colonists and occupation soldiers also detained nine citizens, who were taken after they were assaulted to the Bani Hever colony built on citizens' lands east of Yatta.

The colonists also seized an agricultural tractor belonging to local resident Izzat Duajneh.

K.T