RAMALLAH, January 3, 2025 (WAFA) – Seven Palestinians Friday evening sustained injuries in a colonists’ attack on the outskirts of Silwan town, east of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to a municipal source.

Raed Hamed, Mayor of Silwad, said that Israeli colonists, under army protection, attacked seven residents in the Nasiba area, west of the town, beating them with batons and hurling stones at them. The residents sustained injuries across their bodies.

Hamed added that the assailants torched six vehicles in the area, and the fire spread to some olive trees.

He explained that the colonists mounted their attack on the residents of the town when the latter sought to tend to their cultivated lands in the Nasiba area.

Meanwhile, Israeli colonists stormed Arab al-Mlaihat Bedouin community, northwest of the occupied West Bank city of Jericho, according to Hasan Mlaihat, supervisor of the al-Baidar Organization in Defense of Bedouin Rights.

The squatters roamed the dwellings of the community, spreading panic among the residents.

Colonists’ violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.

Colonists’ violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.

There are over 700,000 Israeli colonists living in colonies in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

K.F.