HEBRON, August 21, 2025 (WAFA) - Several Palestinian residents sustained injuries and bruises on Thursday as a result of an attack carried out by Israeli colonists against residents of Masafer Yatta south of Hebron. The attack also caused extensive damage to residents’ homes and property, according to a local activist.

Activist Osama Makhamreh told WAFA that a group of armed colonists from the colony of Susiya, built illegally on Palestinian-owned land, stormed a residential area located near the colony in Masafer Yatta.

The colonists physically assaulted residents, injuring an elderly man and inflicting head wounds that required his transfer to the hospital for treatment.

Several others sustained bruises and were treated at the scene.

The colonists also vandalized property, smashing the windows of a house and damaging several civilian vehicles and two agricultural tractors belonging to two families in the area.

In a separate attack, armed colonists chased Palestinian shepherds in the area of Al-Mufaqara and attacked their livestock with sticks, killing two sheep and injuring several others.

T.R.