Four people were injured on Saturday evening as settlers assaulted Palestinians and left-wing activists and set fire to at least eight homes and two vehicles in an attack on a Bedouin encampment in the West Bank, according to the Palestinian Authority.

Two Palestinians and two foreign activists were hospitalized for wounds sustained in the attack at Khallet al-Sidra, near Mukhmas north of Jerusalem, the PA’s Jerusalem Governorate said.

The PA’s official news agency WAFA reported that the settlers opened fire at the Bedouin encampment before assaulting people and vandalizing property.

Security camera footage sent to The Times of Israel by Rabbi Arik Ascherman, an Israeli human rights activist, showed individuals walking around the encampment and setting tents on fire.

In the footage, which was timestamped shortly before 10 p.m., the apparent sound of gunfire can be heard, followed by people shouting before the settlers stormed the encampment.

Ascherman said about 20 settlers participated in the attack.

An unnamed human rights activist told Haaretz that the settlers beat them with clubs and rocks for a number of minutes and that their possessions were burned in the attack.

“I am in terrible pain and I am bleeding. The settlers, about 20 of them, arrived while some of us were sleeping. They beat us with clubs and rocks, inside the houses and then outside them, and set the houses on fire and chased us around,” he told the newspaper.

“They beat me in the legs, head and groin with clubs for several........

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