Soldiers seen carrying away Palestinian amputee allegedly attacked by settlers in West Bank

Footage published by left-wing Israeli activists who accompany Palestinians in Masafer Yatta, a hamlet of communities in the southern West Bank, shows four soldiers carrying away a Palestinian amputee who the activists say was assaulted by settlers.

Another soldier in the footage can be seen clutching the crutches of the Palestinian man, identified as Sheikh Sa’id al-Amour.

لحظة اعتقال قوات الاحتلال للجريح سعيد العمور، أثناء دفاعه عن أرضه عقب اقتحام المستوطنين لها، في مسافر يطا جنوب الخليل.

– المعتقل العمور، فقد إحدى ساقيه بعد إصابته برصاص مستوطن، قبل أشهر. pic.twitter.com/ScDC07VE11

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According to the activists, Amour was attacked by settlers as he tried to chase them away while they were cutting the fence around his land in Rakiz, one of the small farming communities that make up Masafer Yatta.

Amour lost his leg after a settler shot at him in April, the activists say. He was 59 at the time, according to a contemporary report by Israeli human rights group B’Tselem.

WAFA, the Palestinian Authority’s official news agency, reports that Amour was held for hours in a nearby military base before being released.

Amour was then taken to the Government Hospital in Yatta for treatment for wounds sustained in the alleged settler attack, according to WAFA.

The Palestinian Red Crescent Society also confirms treating an “elderly man wounded after settlers attacked him in Masafer Yatta,” without specifying the severity of the wounds or whether the man was taken to a hospital.

The IDF does not respond to a request for comment.

Separately, WAFA reports that at least three Palestinians were arrested by Israeli forces — two in the Jenin refugee camp, and one in the town of Beit Rima, near Ramallah, whose age is given as 23.