Colonizers attack Palestinians, soldiers kidnap five near Jericho |

Illegal Israeli colonizers attacked several Palestinian citizens in the northern Jordan Valley on Monday, while occupation forces abducted five Palestinians after they were attacked by settlers.

On Monday afternoon, illegal Israeli colonizers attacked a Palestinian as he traveled along the Al-Ma’rajat road northwest of Jericho in the northeastern part of the occupied West Bank

Israeli settlers pepper-sprayed and attacked a 58-year-old Palestinian man, leaving him bruised, according to Nasser Anani, director of the Jericho Governmental Hospital.

Media sources added that colonists threw stones at Palestinian-owned vehicles on the same road, causing damage, while witnesses said other settlers stole a truck with Palestinian license plates northwest of Jericho.

Meanwhile, colonizers attacked five Palestinian young men on Al-Ma’rajat Street on Monday evening and destroyed the vehicle they were in.

Media sources said that after the colonizers attacked the young men, the occupying forces arrested the victims of the attack and not the attackers.

Soldiers kidnapped Fouad Fathi Fayez Abu Alia, Murad Fathi Fayez Abu Alia, Ali Murad Fathi Abu Alia, Raed Odeh Fathi Abu Alia and Muhammad Shehada Kaabneh.

In addition, Israeli colonizers entered the “Arab Al-Mleihat” community northwest of Jericho on Monday afternoon and attacked two Palestinian citizens.

According to Hassan Mleihat, general overseer of the “Al-Baidar” organization for the defense of Bedouin rights, colonists stormed the community, attacked citizens Jamal Suleiman Mleihat and Suleiman Atallah Mleihat, and grazed their livestock on Palestinian farmland.

In the southern West Bank, Israeli colonizers, under the protection of the occupying army, captured a Palestinian farmer and his sons and forced them to stop work on their land in the town of Al-Khader, southwest of Bethlehem.

According to Ahmad Salah, a local activist, settlers and soldiers entered the “Khallet al-Fahm” area south of the city, arrested Yassin Daadou and his sons while they were working on their land, and forced them to stop their work and leave their own land.