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Foreign pro-Palestinian activists attacked by Israeli settlers in northern West Bank

By Jeremy Sharon 21 July 2024, 6:35 pm 23 Edit

Jeremy Sharon is The Times of Israel’s legal affairs and settlements reporter

Foreign pro-Palestinian volunteers receive treatment at Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, after they were attacked by Jewish Israeli settlers in the village of Qusra, in the West Bank, July 21, 2024. (Nasser Ishtayeh/ Flash90)
Foreign pro-Palestinian volunteers receive treatment at Rafidia Hospital in Nablus, after they were attacked by Jewish Israeli settlers in the village of Qusra, in the West Bank, July 21, 2024. (Nasser Ishtayeh/ Flash90)

Footage emerges of Israeli citizens, reportedly from the illegal settlement of Esh Kodesh, assaulting and beating international pro-Palestinian activists in the northern West Bank, injuring several of them.

Video footage shows a group of men, some masked but others with their faces visible and sporting long pe’ot, or sidelocks, and tzitzit, attacking the activists and beating them with wooden clubs.

According to the “Looking the Occupation in the Eye” organization, which campaigns against the settlements, the Israeli assailants came down from Esh Kodesh to attack the activists who were planting olive trees in the land around the Palestinian town of Qusra, south of Nablus.

IDF forces who were alerted to the incident arrived and fired shots in the air, causing the Israelis to flee the area.

According to the IDF, the injured activists were evacuated from the area by the Red Crescent for medical treatment.

The IDF forces did not arrest the assailants because they fled the scene, nor did they report the incident to the police, since some of them were masked.

“The IDF views any attack and injury to citizens very severely and works to protect public order and security in the region,” the army said.

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