Zionist settlers attack Palestinians, their properties

OCCUPIED PALESTINE, April 16 (YPA) – Five Palestinian civilians, including children, were injured on Monday evening in an attack by Zionist settlers on the town of Bruqin, west of Salfit in the West Bank.

Palestinian sources said that the armed colonist militias, backed by the occupation army, attacked Palestinians and vandalized Palestinian houses and vehicles in Bruqin town, west of the city of Salfit, injuring members of Yasser Shafiq Abdullah’s family.

The casualties were rushed to Salfit Government Hospital.

The assailants, who came from the nearby colony of Bruchin, smashed the windows of a house and a vehicle belonging to Mohammad Shua‘aibi, a doctor, spreading panic among his family members, and smashed the windshields of two other vehicles.

It is noteworthy that the towns and villages of Salfit governorate are subjected to daily attacks by settlers, under the protection of the occupation army.

E.M