QUSRA, Palestine: Two Palestinians were injured on Saturday when dozens of Israeli settlers attacked a home near the besieged Ras Al-Ain hilltop in the occupied West Bank village of Qusra, as the standoff entered its 21st day. Qusra Mayor Abdul Azim Wadi said settlers hurled stones at the home of the Loui Beiruti family, where seven Palestinians were staying, about 400 meters from the three homes under siege on Ras Al-Ain. “Israeli forces were deployed to the site and fired tear gas. Cases of suffocation were reported,” Wadi told Arab News.

In the besieged West Bank village of Qusra, the workers were building a fence for keeping settlers out. Soldiers allowed the settlers to trespass.

After weeks of settler siege, three new Israeli gates around Palestinian homes in Qusra raise fears in West Bank.