The Wafa news agency reports that dozens of settlers have attacked the village of Umm Safa, northwest of the city of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, and fired live bullets at Palestinians’ homes.

Marwan Sabah, the head of the village council, told Wafa that the settler raid occurred under the protection of the Israeli military. He said two young Palestinian men were wounded while trying to escape the settlers and were transferred to the hospital.

The attack on Umm Safa came as dozens of Israeli settlers — escorted by Israeli troops — raided the Old City of Hebron as well as Khalayel al-Louz, west of Bethlehem, according to Wafa.

Israeli settler attacks have surged in the occupied West Bank since Israel’s war on Gaza began last October. And months before that, in June of last year, Israeli settlers raided Umm Safa and set fire to two homes in an attack the Israeli security services labelled as “nationalist terrorism”.