Overview
- Security-camera footage obtained by the Associated Press shows dozens of masked men with sticks assaulting Basim Saleh Yassin on Jan. 8 at a plant nursery in Deir Sharaf.
- Family members who witnessed the attack said the assailants were Israeli settlers and reported that Yassin, who is deaf, could not flee in time.
- Israel’s army said soldiers were dispatched near the Shavei Shomron junction, three suspects were apprehended, and they were transferred to police for questioning.
- Four cars were burned at the nursery, and the owners say this was the third attack in a year, with a September incident causing more than $600,000 in damage.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned the perpetrators as extremists and urged enforcement as reporting notes a broader rise in settler assaults since the olive harvest.