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Injuries, arrests in settler attack on occupied West Bank village

Monday 26-August-2024

AL-KHALIL, (PIC)

Several people have been injured, and several others arrested during an attack by Jewish settlers on the village of al-Buwaib in Masafer Yatta, in the southern West Bank governorate of al-Khalil, on Sunday evening.

According to local activist Farid Burqan, a group of armed settlers attacked with the support of Israeli forces Palestinian shepherds, injuring six of them and arresting three others.

Among the injured is a young man with special needs, he said, adding that the settlers smashed citizens’ vehicles while they were trying to evacuate the injured to the hospital.

Burqan explained that the settlers expelled four local families and seized their homes in the village.

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