Yesterday evening, Tuesday, the town of Silwan, south of Al-Aqsa Mosque, witnessed violent confrontations during which dozens of citizens were suffocated by fragments of sound bombs and rubber bullets.

The confrontations focused on the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood in the town after settlers and occupation forces attacked the neighborhood’s residents.

The head of the Batn al-Hawa Neighborhood Defense Committee, Zuhair al-Rajabi, said that the settlers attacked a number of young men and children while they were in front of their homes in the neighborhood. Which caused arguments between the two parties.

He added that the occupation special forces stormed the neighborhood and suppressed the people present in the place, so the settlers, their guards, and special forces attacked the residents.

Al-Rajabi stated that the settlers' guards fired live bullets extensively and randomly in the middle of the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood, and the special forces also fired sound bombs, rubber bullets, and gas bombs, targeting citizens' homes and vehicles, wounding dozens of neighborhood residents.

Residents of the Batn al-Hawa neighborhood suffer from almost daily attacks by settlers and their guards under various pretexts and pretexts.