RAMALLAH, January 10, 2025 (WAFA) – Several Palestinians Saturday evening sustained injuries in a colonists’ raid in Turmus Ayya village, north of the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah, according to local sources.

They said that Israeli colonists, under the protection of the occupation forces, raided the village, prompting the villagers to fend off the raid and triggering confrontations.

They added that Israeli soldiers opened gunfire toward the villagers, injuring three by rubber-coated steel bullets.

The soldiers detained four others from the village.

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, and 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.