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Settler attack leaves elderly Palestinian with severe head injury

January 3, 2025 at 2:03 pm

Khaled Al-Najjar, elderly Palestinian, injured in extremist Jewish settlers attack in Masafer Yatta

An elderly Palestinian man suffered head injuries after extremist Jewish settlers savagely assaulted him last night in Masafer Yatta, south of Hebron in the occupied West Bank.

Local official Rateb Al-Jabour said that the settler attack happened in the Quwaiwis area near Shaab Al-Batm in Masafer Yatta, adding that Khaled Al-Najjar was transferred to the Abul-Hasan Al-Qasem Hospital in Yatta.

Israeli settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, escalated to unprecedented levels in 2024, the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has said.

In a statement issued on 1 January, OCHA said that it has documented settler violence in the occupied Palestinian territories for about 20 years, and 2024 was the most violent with about 1,400 attacks recorded.

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