Overview
- Security-camera footage published by the Associated Press shows men dressed in black kicking and striking a man at a plant nursery in Deir Sharaf.
- Witnesses identified the victim as 67-year-old Basim Saleh Yassin, who is deaf and hospitalized with broken bones and other injuries.
- Four vehicles at the German-Palestinian business were burned during the Jan. 8 assault, which owners say is the third attack on the site in a year.
- The Israeli army says soldiers detained three suspects near the Shavei Shomron junction and transferred them to police for questioning.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the attackers as “a handful of extremists,” while rights groups say such violence is widespread across the West Bank.