Police: 5 settlers detained on suspicion of stoning Palestinian home, wounding baby

By Noam Lehmann 25 December 2025, 2:41 pm

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Police and IDF forces arrested five Israeli settlers suspected of hurling stones overnight at a Palestinian home in the southern West Bank village of Sa’ir and wounding a baby, police say.

According to police, the suspects came from an illegal outpost close to Sa’ir.

إصابة طفلة رضيعة بحجارة مليشيات المستوطنين خلال هجوم نفذته فجر اليوم في منطقة الربيعة ببلدة سعير شمال الخليل، تخلله حرق مركبات وهجوم على المنازل. pic.twitter.com/GIr31vMNBZ

— المركز الفلسطيني للإعلام (@PalinfoAr) December 25, 2025

Palestinian media reported earlier today that an 8-month-old girl was hospitalized in moderate condition with injuries to her head and face after being hit in the head with a stone late Monday. Footage published by Palestinian media showed two windows in the home were also shattered by the stones.

Separately, settlers reportedly set fire to a bulldozer in the southern West Bank village of Beit Fajjar and graffitied a Star of David and the messages “You won’t break us,” and “Revenge” on a nearby wall early this morning. No arrests have been reported.