Over a dozen Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian village in the southern Israeli-occupied West Bank on Friday, beating residents with sticks and rocks, in an incident captured with rare clarity by security cameras. The video obtained by AP and testimonies from Palestinian witnesses appeared to conflict with the account of the attack provided by Israeli police and military, who arrested over 20 Palestinians afterwards.

The violence in the village of Jinba follows a settler attack earlier this week in a nearby village in which Hamdan Ballal, a Palestinian co-director of the Oscar-winning documentary “No Other Land,” was left bloodied and bruised before being detained by Israeli soldiers for about 20 hours.

The videos provide uncommonly stark images of the type of settler assault Palestinians in the West Bank say now occurs frequently. They say radical Jewish settlers rarely, if ever, face repercussions for attacking Palestinian communities, while Palestinians are often rounded up in droves and detained by Israeli forces.

https://apnews.com/article/israel-settler-attack-palestinians-masafer-yatta-5fca78a22e3c606ae55734770cb7aa41

Posted by Naurgul

5 comments

  1. If they want to stop being arrested, Palestinians should stop committing the crime of flagrantly existing on the land set aside by God himself for his chosen ones…

  2. These settlers are causing terror. They are inciting terror with their actions. This seems like an overall campaign of terror being waged by the settlers.

  3. I love the equivocation here 

    “The video obtained by AP and testimonies from Palestinian witnesses appeared to conflict with the account of the attack provided by Israeli police and military, who arrested over 20 Palestinians afterwards.“

    Hard to say who to believe, the IDF or our own lying eyes

  4. How come the terrorist groups don’t fight against these violence settlers or the IDF or Israeli police?

    Why do they target civilians instead? Why not be the resistance by resisting lol

  5. This happens so often it’s a normal occurance. The government on the West Bank is being paid off by Israel. They gladly cooperate to stomp out any dissidence. I know this through direct sources.

    Then you have Hamas in Gaza pointing to this and going “This is what happens when we cooperate with Israel! Look!”, allowing for Israel to respond in “self defence”.

    This is precisely what Israel wants. Divide and conquer. It’s working really well.

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