According to local sources, the ZOF stormed the village and fired tear gas grenades at homes.

An elderly woman and children from the family of Rab’iee were reportedly among the citizens who suffered from their exposure to tear gas.

Meanwhile, a horde of Jewish settlers entered the village under military protection as part of their ongoing assaults on the impoverished Palestinian communities in Yatta.

Al-Tuwani villagers are facing extremely difficult living conditions as a result of the repeated attacks by the IOF and settlers against them, their homes, crops, and cattle.

In November last year, the human rights group B’Tselem accused Israel of using settler violence as a “major informal tool” to drive Palestinians from farming and pasture lands in the West Bank.

In a separate incident, the ZOF kidnaped on the same day a Palestinian young man from Nablus and clashed with local youths in Ramallah.

According to local sources, zionist soldiers aboard a white jeep chased a group of young men on a road near Tell village, southwest of Nablus, and kidnaped one of them identified as Taha Anna’na.

In Ramallah, the ZOF stormed Ras Karkar town and showered local youths with tear gas grenades during clashes with them.

Similar clashes also took place in al-Jalazon refugee camp in northern Ramallah. One zionist soldier was reportedly injured during the events.

Local sources said that the skirmishes started in the camp after dozens of angry youths marched to an area near the illegal settlement of Beit El and hurled stones at Israeli soldiers in protest at the killing of a local young man after he allegedly stabbed and wounded two policemen in the Old City of Occupied Jerusalem last Monday. (ILKHA)