NABLUS: Two Palestinian victims Monday evening succumbed to their injuries sustained in a colonist attack at Khirbet at-Tawil, east of the town of Aqraba, south of the West Bank city of Nablus, according to a local official.
Salah Bani-Jaber, Mayor of Aqraba, said that the Palestinian Liaison informed him that the two victims of an Israeli colonist attack at Khribet at-Tawil succumbed to their injuries.
Earlier, Israeli colonists, under military protection, attacked Palestinian farmers tending to their farmland and opened live gunfire at them in the aforementioned area, injuring two with bullets and inflicting bruises and fractures across the body of another.
The gun-toting soldiers prevented an ambulance from providing emergency aid to the casualties, who were left to bleed to death. Their bodies are still withheld by the soldiers.
The Health Ministry identified the victims as Abdulrahman Maher Bani Fadel, 30, and Mohammed Ashraf Bani Jame, 21.
Colonist violence against Palestinians and their property i
s routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
Colonist violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, and attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.
Over 700,000 Israeli colonists are living in colonies across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA