YouTube clip shows Israeli soldiers protect settlers as settlers attack

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - A video captured the collusion  between Israeli Occupation Soldiers and extremist Jewish settlers firing live ammunition at Palestinians.

The incident took place on Saturday during clashes between the settlers who came from Yitzhar, an Israeli colony built to the east of the village on land stolen from the villagers in 1983 and Palestinian farmers from Asira al-Qibliya near Nablus in the occupied West Bank. The video, filmed by a volunteer in an Israeli human rights organization "B'Tselem", showed the shooting of a Palestinian by two Jewish settlers in the presence of at least three IOF soldiers who did not intervene.

In this video, taken from a different angle, two settlers can be seen carrying M-16 rifles and shooting a Palestinian young man in his head and him falling to the ground.

Another angle shows a third settler open fire on Palestinians while Israeli occupation soldiers showed up at the scene, but instead of doing anything to halt the settler assault, the soldiers formed a line to protect the settlers who continued firing at Palestinians.

B'Tselem wrote urgently to the Police requesting that those involved in the violent attack are arrested and prosecuted. Additionally, B'Tselem wrote to the Military Police Investigation Unit requesting that a military police investigation is opened at once into the suspicion that the soldiers did not adhere to their obligation to protect Palestinians from settler violence, and that one of the attackers was a soldier on leave. B'Tselem additionally requested that the soldiers are instructed to cooperate with the police investigation and identify the suspect in the shooting.

For its part, the occupation army claimed on Monday that it was investigating the incident.