Bloody pogrom in Kafr Malik

On June 25, in the evening, around 20:00, dozens of Israeli settlers invaded Kafr Malik village northeast of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank.

They set on fire the Palestinian property, including residential homes and vehicles, while residents of the town and nearly villages attempted to confront them.

At the same time, Israeli occupation forces have stormed the village in order to secure protection for the settlers. They opened fire with live bullets at Palestinians who are trying to defend their lands and property from Israeli settler attacks.

They prevented ambulances then from reaching and transporting the injured.

Israeli newspaper Haaretz, citing a local resident, reported that it was the Israeli army that killed the three Palestinians, although the settlers also fired handguns.

The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) statement

They said in a statement on Wednesday that dozens of Israeli civilians set fire to property in al-Mughayyir, a village near Kafr Malik. "Upon receiving the report, IDF and Israeli Police forces were dispatched to the scene and operated to disperse the confrontation,"(...) "Several terrorists fired from within al-Mughayyir and hurled rocks at the forces, who opened fire toward the source of fire and the rock-hurlers. Hits were identified, and it was later reported that there were several individuals injured and fatalities".

The IDF noted that five Israeli suspects were arrested during the incident and transferred to the police.

In the latest toll:

At least 7 Palestinians were reported injured. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) reported that its ambulance crews treated five citizens for serious gunshot wounds during the settler attack against Palestinians in Kafr Malik town.

3 Palestinians were reported killed and at least Seven injured

Names of the martyrs:

The Shireen Observatory identified the slain Palestinians as:

• Mershid Nawaf Hamayel, 35,
• Lotfi Sabry Bairat, 18,
• Mohammad Maher Al-Naji, age unknown.

Simultaneously in the West Bank:

• Israeli settlers injured an elderly Palestinian man and burned agricultural lands in the town of Asira al-Qibliya, south of Nablus.

• Israeli settlers invaded Asira al-Qibliya, set fire to agricultural lands, hurled rocks at Palestinian citizens in the town, causing an elderly man to sustain a head injury and blocked civil defense crews from reaching the area to extinguish the fires.

• Israeli settlers cut down dozens of olive trees between the villages of Aqraba and Bani Fadel, south of Nablus in the northern West Bank.

• Israeli settlers invaded Palestinian orchards in the “Souf” area and cut more than 80 olive trees.

• Israeli settlers from the Abu Fazza’ Al-Ka’abna, in the Al-Ka’abna Bedouin community, east of Ramallah, burned a Palestinian-owned vehicle parked in front of a house, and several structures. The Palestinian Red Crescent Society (PRCS) stated that its medics treated eight Palestinians for suffocation injuries due to smoke inhalation.