RAMALLAH,(Palestine Foundation Information Center) Two Palestinian citizens were martyred and two others were injured on Friday evening when a horde of extremist Jewish settlers escorted by soldiers attacked Sinjil town, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.
According to the Palestinian health ministry, a young man called Mohamed ash-Shalabi from al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya town was shot dead by an armed settler during the attack on Sinjil town.
Earlier, another young man called Saifuddin Maslat from al-Mazra’a ash-Sharqiya town was also killed by settler gunfire as he was helping his compatriots in Sinjil town to fend off the attackers.
Local activist Ayed Ghafri said that dozens of settlers with automatic rifles attacked Sinjil residents as they tried to reach their lands along with foreign activists in the nearby area of Mount al-Batin in order to remove an illegal settler outpost there.
About two weeks ago, armed settlers killed three West Bank young men during an attack on Kafr Malik town, northeast of Ramallah.
