Car, building torched in apparent settler attack in West Bank; no injuries reported

A Palestinian-owned vehicle and building were torched overnight south of Nablus in the West Bank, Palestinian media outlets reported Sunday morning, in what they described as the latest in a string of attacks by extremist settlers

There were no reports of injuries in the village of Usarin.

Footage from the scene showed a structure on fire and a partially burned car.

Local sources told the WAFA news agency that the building and car belonged to a Palestinian resident of the town.

Pictures also showed graffiti in Hebrew reading, “Revenge, 30 for Benayahu,” 30 days after settlement security officer Benayahu Mellet was killed during an armed clash between settlers and Palestinians in the nearby village of Tell.

Another graffiti message read: “Death to the enemy, freedom for the homeland,” a slogan used by the Lehi Jewish underground, which fought British rule in Mandatory Palestine in the 1940s.

Two teens arrested for attack on Palestinian amputee

Also on Sunday morning, Israel Police announced that officers overnight arrested two Israeli teenagers over an assault on a Palestinian amputee the day before in the South Hebron Hills, who has been the victim of several previous settler attacks.

Police said it arrested a 16-year-old settler filmed clubbing the Palestinian man in the hamlet of Khirbet al-Rakiz, in the Masafer Yatta area south of Hebron, and another 17-year-old Israeli who recorded the attack.

The 16-year-old, from the Hebron-area settlement of Avigayil, was kept in custody following an interrogation, and the 17-year-old, from Jerusalem, was released to house arrest, police said.

The 16-year-old was set to be brought before a judge later Sunday, police said, adding that the investigation is ongoing.

HORRIFIC: A video shows an Israeli settler terrorist assaulting an elderly Palestinian amputee in Hebron, in the West Bank, beating him with a club. pic.twitter.com/9kYCYB7CUx

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Officers also confiscated a Ranger ATV that the teenagers were driving, without a license, during the attack, police said.

The vehicle is the same type that the Settlements Ministry provides for Jewish farming outposts in the West Bank that activists accuse of generating frequent harassment of Palestinians. Last week, prosecutors filed an indictment against a settler who allegedly ran over a Palestinian shepherd’s flock using a similar ATV that had been provided by the ministry.

According to Palestinian media, the amputee who was attacked Saturday was identified as Sheikh Saeed al-Amour, 61.

The Palestinian Red Crescent said Amour was hospitalized following the attack.

Amour’s leg was amputated last April because of a gunshot wound he sustained in a clash with settlers.

חייל מפיל את השייח סעיד אל־אמור אל הארץ ומכוון אליו את נשקו, ביום שישי pic.twitter.com/wiEHNMH2iQ

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He told Israeli human rights group B’Tselem last year that the settlers, including Avigayil’s resident security chief, pulled up onto his land, attacked three of his children and shot him above the knee.

Amour was detained from Beersheba’s Soroka Hospital, where his leg had been amputated, and was released on bail, he said at the time.

חיילים מעכבים את השייח סעיד אל־אמור, ביום שישי pic.twitter.com/O1N2sjSqMF

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In December, Israeli soldiers were filmed knocking Amour to the ground, taking his crutch and carrying him into a military vehicle.

Amour told the Haaretz newspaper that he was held for several hours at a nearby military base, bound and blindfolded.

The IDF told Haaretz at the time that troops had used “reasonable” force against Amour because he had “acted with violence” against a security vehicle belonging to the Avigayil settlement.

IDF leaves Qusra home where troops had been stationed for over a week

Meanwhile, IDF troops left a home in the village of Qusra overnight Saturday-Sunday, where they had been stationed for over a week after settlers besieged the residents, according to Qusai Abu Ridi, who resides in a neighboring home.

The troops had taken up residence inside the home of Yusuf Hassan, with Hassan and his family moving to another unoccupied home nearby, as part of an operation meant to protect Palestinian families from settlers who had set up an outpost that had prevented them from leaving their homes.

While troops are no longer inside the home, they remain stationed outside to prevent settlers from returning.

The move came days after troops were filmed throwing clothes belonging to the family out of a window of the home. In the video, a soldier can also be heard telling a resident speaking to him through the window, “I am the homeowner.”

“The incident was investigated. The troops exercised poor judgment and threw items out of a building in which they were operating to defend the area. Immediately afterward, the incident was investigated and the items were collected and stored,” the IDF said Saturday.

“The conduct of the troops and the remark heard in the video are contrary to what is expected of an IDF soldier. We emphasize that in recent days, coordination was carried out with village residents under which soldiers would temporarily stay in several buildings in the area in order to enable them to maintain order and continuously prevent rioters from reaching the area,” the military added.

Over the past week, IDF forces have maintained a presence in the area to prevent settlers from rebuilding makeshift structures and again blocking access to the residents’ homes.

Though no longer hemmed in by the settlers, residents have been told that they cannot leave their homes without coordinating through their lawyer due to a closed military zone order imposed in the area.

The IDF has not responded to a Times of Israel query on the matter.