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Video Shows Masked Men Beating Palestinian at West Bank Nursery as Three Suspects Are Detained

Rights groups cite a pattern of daily settler assaults while Israel’s leader casts the attackers as isolated extremists.

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.