Seven Palestinians were hospitalized after settlers attacked them this morning in the village of Madama, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, the Palestinian Red Crescent Society says.
Two men aged 72 and 53 were shot in the leg and a 46-year-old man sustained shrapnel injuries to the face, while two other men aged 40 and 43, and two women aged 45 and 53, were beaten, the medics say.
Madama village chief Rami Nassar tells WAFA, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency, that dozens of settlers from a new outpost north of Madama took part in the attack on shepherds on the village outskirts.
According to Nassar and the Red Crescent, the IDF arrived on the scene and initially prevented the medics from attending to the wounded.
The military does not immediately comment.
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