Two citizens were injured and another was arrested today, Saturday, in an attack by settlers and the Israeli occupation army on the town of Silwad, east of Ramallah.

The mayor of Silwad, Raed Nimer Hamed, explained to the "Wafa" agency that a number of armed settlers, under the protection of the occupation army, stormed the town from the direction of a colonial outpost that has been established for 20 days in the "Al-Burj" area to the west, and attacked citizens on agricultural lands and severely beat them.

He added that two citizens were injured and bruised, while the occupation forces arrested citizen Islam Raji Hamed, while he was working in agriculture on those lands.