Footage appears to show settlers clubbing Palestinian lying helplessly on the ground

New footage from one of last night’s settler attacks in the southern West Bank appears to show a group of masked Israelis repeatedly clubbing a Palestinian man as he lies helplessly on the ground.

The man was apparently on guard duty in Khirbet al-Fakhit when footage shows several masked people arrive and immediately begin bludgeoning him, unprovoked. He suffered several skull fractures and was taken in serious condition to the hospital, where he underwent surgery, according to Palestinian media.

The IDF issues a statement saying that it arrested two Palestinian women who it claims attacked soldiers after they arrived at the scene. There were no arrests of settlers, who have been increasingly able to carry out attacks on Palestinians on a near-daily basis with almost complete impunity.

הפלסטינים מפרסמים תיעוד של האירוע אתמול בחירבת פחית במסאפר יאטא בדרום הר חברון. חמישה יהודים תוקפים באלימות קשה פלסטיני שנפצע קשה ועוד מספר בני משפחה נוספים. הפלסטיני נותח הלילה בבית החולים בחברון וסובל משברים בגולגולת. https://t.co/HcwocL94zA pic.twitter.com/zDfvsTJMpk

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Responding to last night’s attack, Democrats MK Gilad Kariv says, “Jewish terrorism in the territories has become a daily reality. Violent settlers carry out pogroms in Palestinian villages every single day.”

“IDF Central Command, the police’s [West Bank] district and the Shin Bet are not curbing this phenomenon. It is becoming increasingly clear that these bodies are deliberately turning of a blind eye — whether out of fear of confronting the political echelon that gives full backing to these violent zealots, or out of silent consent to their actions,” Kariv writes.

“Beyond the moral injustice and the disgrace, this constitutes criminal negligence on the part of the security establishment,” the MK continues, saying the attacks will lead to more violence and damage Israel’s international standing.

“I call on IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir to stop ignoring this grave phenomenon and the unacceptable patterns of action and inaction of the IDF Central Command on this matter,” Kariv continues, saying Israelis must protest the attacks.