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by IMEMC News
Jan 12, 2025

On Saturday, at least four Palestinians were injured and one abducted during separate attacks carried out by illegal Israeli colonizers, under the protection of the occupation forces.

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian young man, on Saturday morning, during a settler attack in the village of Yatma, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.

According to Ahmad Sanobar, the head of the Yatma village council, illegal Israeli colonizers, under the protection of occupation forces, attacked citizens’ homes in the village, while local Palestinians confronted them.

Sanobar added that occupation forces opened heavy fire with live rounds and tear gas canisters, shooting a young man in the leg with live ammunition.

Meanwhile, in the central West Bank, three Palestinians were injured and one was abducted during a settler attack in the town of Turmus Ayya, northeast of Ramallah, on Saturday afternoon.

Media sources said that illegal Israeli colonizers, under army protection, invaded the town of Turmus Ayya, hurled rocks at citizens, injuring one young man, and attempted to burn several citizens’ homes and vehicles.

Sources added that when local citizens confronted the attacking settlers, Israeli forces opened fire with rubber-coated steel rounds at them, shooting two young men in their legs; soldiers also abducted the young man, Ammar Al-Qouq, 29.

Meanwhile, Israeli colonizers invaded Bardala village in the northern Jordan Valley and destroyed olive trees belonging to a local citizens.

According to Moataz Basharat, the official responsible for the settlement file in Tubas, a group of illegal colonizers stormed the property of the citizen, Sultan Rashid Sawafta, and destroyed a number of olive trees.

Furthermore, on Saturday night, a large group of illegal colonizers attacked Palestinians and their property in the village of Kisan, south of Bethlehem in the southern occupied West Bank.

Ahmad Ghazal, the Secretary of the Fatah Movement in Kisan, told the WAFA News Agency that at least 30 colonizers assaulted Palestinian farmers in Kisan village, and burned a number of tents and barracks.

Moreover, under the protection of Israeli forces, hundreds of illegal colonizers stormed the Old City of Hebron and desecrated the Ibrahimi Mosque, on Saturday night.

Media sources said that armed paramilitary settlers invaded the Old City, chanting racist slogans and hurling threats and insults at Palestinians, before invading the Ibrahimi Mosque in the center of Hebron, playing loud music and performing Talmudic rituals.

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