Occupied Quds - (Saba):
Several Palestinian citizens sustained burns during the repelling of a settler attack last night on the town of Bruqin, west of Salfit, in the northern occupied West Bank. Settlers set fire to homes and vehicles belonging to citizens.
The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that its crews treated eight people suffering from burns as a result of settlers setting fire to homes in Bruqin and provided them with medical treatment on the spot.
Local sources reported to the Palestinian News Agency that a large group of settlers attacked the "Al-Baqan" area on the outskirts of Bruqin, under the protection of Israeli enemy forces. They set fire to five homes and five vehicles belonging to the town's residents, and threw stones at the homes.
Appeals were made over mosque loudspeakers to confront the settlers, help extinguish the fires, and rescue the residents of the targeted homes.
Israeli forces withdrew from Bruqin on Thursday afternoon, following a nine-day assault during which they executed Nael Samara, seized his body, arrested others, and left extensive damage to the homes they raided. Measurements of Samara's home were also taken in preparation for its demolition.
The settlers' attack followed a renewed incursion into the town in the evening, closing off some internal streets, raiding and searching several homes, and arresting the child Ayman Omar Sand.
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