Settler teen arrested for suspected assault on Palestinian woman and child

By Charlie Summers

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28 July 2026, 5:02 pm

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An Israeli settler filmed striking a dog with a stick in the Palestinian village of Khirbet a-Rakiz in the south Hebron Hills of the West Bank on May 26, 2026. (Screen capture/X)

Police arrest a settler teen suspected of assaulting a mother and her child, as well as abusing a dog during a raid on a Palestinian village in the southern West Bank.

The 16-year-old suspect had been on the run for the past two months after the May 27 attack on Khirbet a-Rakiz. Officers tracked him down to a hideout near Kibbutz Sde Boker in southern Israel, police say.

He is believed to be the assailant filmed taking a club to one of the village watchdogs, and in a separate clip from the raid, entering the home of a resident and pushing a woman to the ground as her toddler clung to her.

He was taken in for questioning and will be brought before a judge later today, where police will request to keep him in custody.