Overview
- Le Figaro reports that Bernard Baudoux, mayor of Aulnoye-Aymeries, was targeted and injured while taking part in an olive-harvest accompaniment in Taybeh in the occupied West Bank.
- Participants say the delegation included French, Belgian and Polish representatives who were also confronted by attackers during the visit.
- Witness accounts quoted by Le Figaro describe seven masked settlers arriving on quads, encircling the delegation's vehicles and using clubs to carry out the assault.
- Rights groups and local observers place the incident in a documented rise of settler attacks against Palestinian farmers, especially during olive-harvest season, and point to low prosecution and prevention by Israeli authorities.
- Reporting so far is limited to participant accounts and Le Figaro, with no independent confirmation in the provided coverage of any Israeli investigation, arrests or official responses, and the episode could chill municipal solidarity visits and humanitarian ties between Taybeh and European towns.