Israeli settlers have attacked Palestinian farmers working their lands in Silwad, east of Ramallah, in the occupied West Bank.
Video footage captured by local media shows farmers with bloody wounds on their heads and faces after having been beaten. The settlers also smashed the windows of a vehicle belonging to a Palestinian resident.
Three Palestinians were injured and one was arrested, according to the Wafa news agency. Silwad Mayor Raed Nimer told the outlet that the settlers came from an outpost erected less than a month ago in the al-Burj area.
Israeli settlers have ramped up their attacks on Palestinians in the West Bank, often under the protection of Israeli soldiers, since the Hamas-led attacks on October 2023.
Israeli settlements in the West Bank are illegal under international law. The International Court of Justice said earlier this year that Israel’s continued presence in the occupied Palestinian territory is unlawful and should come to an end “as rapidly as possible”.