Five citizens were injured today, Wednesday, and others fainted as a result of an attack by settlers on residents in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron.

Local sources reported that dozens of settlers attacked residents of Khirbet Aqwawis in Masafer Yatta, beating them and spraying tear gas in their faces, which resulted in the injury of the elderly Jibril Musa al-Na'amin, Nour Abdul Aziz al-Na'amin, Ja'far Yousef al-Na'amin, and Adel and Saber Talib al-Na'amin, with head wounds, fractures and bruises. They were transferred by ambulance crews to a hospital to receive treatment.

A number of other residents fainted after the settlers sprayed them with toxic pepper gas, and they were treated in the field.