The two remaining detainees suspected of attacking reserve soldiers over the weekend during a settler rampage through the West Bank Palestinian village of Kafr Malik were reportedly released to house arrest Thursday afternoon, as efforts to prosecute those behind the attacks appeared to fall apart.

The two suspects went free in wake of another attack on a Palestinian village Wednesday night by settlers apparently seeking to take over the area and establish an illegal outpost on village land, amid mounting concerns that Israeli authorities are unwilling or unable to rein in extremist violence.

Despite Israeli authorities’ promises to crack down on extremist settler youths, the investigation into the attack appeared to be crumbling as the prosecution struggled to draft an indictment, according to the Ynet news site.

From Friday night to Saturday morning, dozens of young Israeli settlers attacked reserve soldiers while marauding in Kafr Malik.

The attack occurred after soldiers and police were dispatched to the area due to fresh rioting there. The area had been declared a closed military zone after a settler raid earlier that week that killed three Palestinians.

Assailants reportedly beat, choked and hurled rocks at troops, slashed the tires of a police cruiser and tried to ram troops with a car.

Six suspects were arrested in the Friday night riots, but three were released on the first day of the investigation. An additional minor was released Wednesday, and the final two suspects went free Thursday. All of their cases were heard by the Petah Tikva Magistrate’s Court.

Prosecutors have reportedly struggled to draft an indictment due to gaps between documented evidence and witness testimonies.

A reserve battalion commander who was attacked that night was summoned to give additional testimony due to obstacles in the ongoing probe.

Police had already once questioned the unnamed reservist but called him in again after footage surfaced Tuesday that supposedly contradicted his initial testimony. The exact contradictions were unclear, as his full testimony has not been made public.

One video published by Ynet documenting the incident depicted a physical confrontation between the reservist and the young settlers, in which the former tried to prevent them from attacking another soldier. One of the settlers is then heard shouting at the reservist commander: “Who do you think you are?”

Days after the attack, dozens of Jewish extremists rioted outside a West Bank IDF base in the area overnight Sunday-Monday, several waving signs calling the reservist a “traitor” and demanding his imprisonment.

A military official said some of the settlers tried to break into the Binyamin Regional Brigade military base, threw rocks and sprayed mace at troops and slashed the tires of army vehicles.

According to Ynet, the commander said his battalion spends most of its time dealing with settler violence.

“Ninety percent of the time, we are preventing ‘Hilltop Youth’ from setting fires in the area,” he said, referring to a loose group of young settler extremists responsible for much of the violence against West Bank Palestinians. “These are the same people that were filmed setting fires in Kafr Malik with their weapons drawn.”

Israeli youths were documented Wednesday night breaking into a Palestinian home in the West Bank’s Jordan Valley and forcing out the family living there, the latest in a series of brazen attacks by extremist settlers.

Photos from the village of Mu’arajat al-Sharqiya showed settlers relaxing and smoking outside the home after the family fled. They also stole cash and an air conditioner unit from the home, according to the left-wing activist group Looking the Occupation in the Eye.

Elsewhere in the village, other settlers took over an uninhabited house and remained there throughout the night and into the morning.

Mu’arajat, a small hamlet on the edge of the southern Jordan Valley, is one of the few remaining rural Palestinian communities between Ramallah and Jericho. Over the past two years, most of the roughly 1,000 residents of herding communities in the area have fled or were forcibly displaced by settler violence.

The IDF responded to an inquiry from The Times of Israel, claiming that “Israeli civilians were removed from the area [Mu’arajat al-Sharqiya] by security forces” before dawn Thursday morning.

The Israel Police did not respond to requests for comment regarding the incident.

An Israeli activist assisting residents of the village told The Times of Israel that up to 25 settlers were in the village at one point. She said they threw stones at activists and villagers, and chased them with clubs. There were no injuries.

After the incident, it was discovered that about 60 sheep had been stolen from one of the residents, she said.

The activist said that dozens of calls were made to Israeli police overnight, but no officers were dispatched to the scene. One of the villagers later filed a complaint.

Footage showed IDF soldiers were present at the scene, but according to the activist, they did not intervene.

A group of soldiers was later seen sitting with two of the settlers on the edge of the village in what appeared to be a relaxed setting, with the troops drinking energy drinks and checking their phones.