RAMALLAH: Israeli settlers injured five Palestinians, including two with gunshot wounds, in a fresh attack against a village in the occupied West Bank, the local Palestinian mayor told AFP Saturday.
Palestinian news agency WAFA reported that a group of settlers attacked in the area of Rashayda, near the village of Kisan, “firing live ammunition.”
Musa Abayat, the mayor of the area east of Bethlehem, told AFP that two people were hospitalized with gunshot wounds and three others beaten with sharp objects or hit by stones.
“The settlers also stole 100 sheep,” Abayat said, decrying “daily attacks” by settlers in this part of the West Bank.
He said the Israeli military intervened and detained several of the injured Palestinians.
