Overview
- Security footage obtained by the Associated Press shows men in black with covered faces striking and kicking a man on the ground at a nursery in Deir Sharaf.
- Witnesses from the owning family identified the victim as 67-year-old Basim Saleh Yassin, who is deaf and was hospitalized with broken bones and injuries to his face, chest and back.
- Israel’s army said it dispatched forces to the nearby Shavei Shomron junction and apprehended three suspects who were transferred to police for questioning.
- Four cars at the German-Palestinian-run facility were burned, and workers fled as the group approached, according to the witnesses.
- A family member said the nursery has been attacked three times in a year, including a September incident causing more than $600,000 in damage.