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by Saed Bannoura - IMEMC & Agencies

Eyewitnesses have reported that Israeli soldiers attacked, on Thursday evening (May 29, 2014] two young Palestinian men, in the Ash-Shuhada Street, in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank.

The two have been identified as Mohammad al-Jamal, 22, and Diab al-Karaky, 20; the soldiers stopped the two Palestinians at the roadblock, and violently assaulted them before one of them lost consciousness.

Imad Abu Shamsiyya, a local volunteer with the Israeli Information Center for Human Rights in the Occupied Territories (B’Tselem) stated the soldiers tried to prevent the B’Tselem team from documenting the assault.

Abu Shamsiyya added that such attacks became a daily occurrence in Hebron, especially in the Ash-Shuhada Street.

He said the soldiers refused to allow local medics to provide treatment to the two Palestinians, and insisted on arresting them.

Imad al-Atrash, a local activist, said the attack was the third just on Thursday, adding that Israeli military assaults and attacks by fanatic Israeli settlers take place on a daily basis.

Al-Atrash added that the settlers also repeatedly attack international solidarity activists, and Israeli activists.