Arabs from the village of Huwara broke into a farm near the yishuv of Tapuach in the Shomron late Friday night and stole a flock of sheep, Arutz Sheva reported.

In the early morning hours, the owner of the farm discovered the theft and alerted security forces and local volunteers, who began searches.

The farm workers and volunteers followed the tracks that led to the outskirts of Huwara, where they were attacked by dozens of Arabs from the village with clubs and stones. They were forced to defend themselves with their bare hands.

In another incident, another Arab rioter threatened volunteers with a knife and rammed his vehicle into one of them and then escaped the scene.

Following the incident, some Israeli media outlets and left-wing organizations published reports claiming that “violent settlers attacked Palestinians in Huwara.”

On Motzei Shabbos, Tzafnat Farm issued a response to the biased reports. “Under the cover of Shabbos, the media and extremist left‑wing organizations chose to run a malicious campaign at the farm’s expense, presenting a partial, biased, and distorted picture, blatantly ignoring the theft of the flock and the violent attacks by the Arabs of Huwara against those who carried out searches.”

“Arabs and extremist left‑wing organizations released a biased video showing the detention of two Arabs who had participated in the attack shortly beforehand and threw stones together with dozens of other rioters.”

“Any attempt to whitewash the village of Huwara, which for years has waged a terror campaign against nearby Jewish residents, supported and mocked the murder of the brothers Hillel and Yigal Yaniv, H’YD, praised the massacre in Neve Yaakov and the October 7 massacre, and repeatedly carries out violent attacks against the farm, is disgraceful and dangerous. We are confident that Am Yisrael has long learned to distinguish between truth and lies, between reliable reporting and slander, and will once again stand with the settlers and not with the enemy.”

There have been countless terror attacks in Huwara, including the murder of the Yaniv brothers, H”yd, in February 2023, and the murder of a father and son from Ashdod in August 2023.

Thousands of Jews living in the Shomron are forced to drive through Huwara daily as a major thoroughfare, Route 60, passes through the town.

(YWN’s Jerusalem desk is keeping you updated after tzeis ha’Shabbos in Israel)