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Sat 24 Jun 2023 2:24 pm - Jerusalem Time

Settlers attack the village of Umm Safa, Ramallah district

Today, Saturday, dozens of settlers attacked the village of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah, and fired live bullets at the Palestine TV crew while it was covering the events.


According to local sources, dozens of settlers attacked the village and attacked the homes of the citizens and fired live bullets at them under the protection of the Israeli occupation army, calling on the neighboring villages to go to Umm Safa in order to support the people there.


According to other local sources, a group of settlers, under the protection of the occupation army, opened fire at a Palestinian TV crew while they were covering settler attacks on the village.


The sources added that about 70 settlers stormed the village of Umm Safa, accompanied by the occupation army, and fired at the homes and facilities of the citizens, adding that the TV crew was covering the events from the roof of one of the houses, where the settlers fired at them, causing the camera to be hit with live bullets directly. and crashing.


The settlers' attacks caused the death of a citizen's horse and damaged a number of houses.


In the same context, Minister of Health Mai Al-Kaila condemned the crime of settlers' attack on an ambulance carrying a patient near the village of Umm Safa, northwest of Ramallah.


Al-Kaila said in a statement, today, Saturday, that an ambulance belonging to the Western Bani Zaid Martyrs Emergency Medical Center of the Ramallah and Al-Bireh Health Directorate was stoned by settlers near Umm Safa, while it was transporting a patient from the center in Beit Rima to the Palestine Medical Complex in Bram. God.


She added that this attack resulted in the ambulance driver being injured and bruised, while the patient miraculously survived unharmed, noting that God's providence prevented the ambulance from overturning.


The Minister of Health called on the international community to intervene to protect the medical staff and our people from the continuous settler terrorism, which is carried out under the cover of the occupation army.

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