Video shows aftermath of brutal Israeli settler attack on Palestinian father, son
We reported earlier about an Israeli settler attack on a Palestinian village in the Masafer Yatta area of the occupied West Bank.
Now a video shared on social media in the aftermath of the attack on Friday morning shows the serious injuries suffered by a Palestinian teenager and his father.
In the video, a teenager is seen prostrate and bleeding from a large wound on his head after he was beaten by a group of Israeli settlers armed with rocks and metal pipes. A separate security camera video recording captured the moment of the attack as 17-year-old Qusai is chased, smashed in the head with a rock, beaten with pipes and kicked while on the ground.
Qusai’s father, Aziz, is reportedly in a serious condition with a brain haemorrhage and skull fractures. He has reportedly undergone surgery for his injuries.
Following the settler attack, Israeli forces arrested more than 20 Palestinians in the village after accusing them of attacking settlers – which the widely circulated video evidence starkly refutes.
Palestine Foreign Ministry condemns Masafer Yatta settler attack as ‘ethnic cleansing’
We have been reporting on Friday’s attack by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank’s Masafer Yatta area, which left five Palestinians with serious injuries.
Palestine’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has released a statement condemning the attack – which it said was “carried out under the protection and supervision” of Israeli forces – and calling for international action.
“Settlers brutally assaulted several Palestinian shepherds in an attempt to expel them and forcibly depopulate the entire area of its Palestinian residents. This represents one of the most egregious forms of ethnic cleansing targeting Palestinians,” it said.
The ministry said the purpose of such attacks is to “annex this land as a strategic reserve for colonial settlement expansion, deliberately destroying any prospects for the realisation of a Palestinian state”.
“The Ministry views the ongoing brutality against our people in Gaza, Massafer Yatta, the northern West Bank, and the Jordan Valley as an escalated colonial campaign of racial persecution, genocide, forced displacement, and annexation,” it continued.
Israeli forces raid West Bank’s Tammun, surround a house
We’ve received reports the Israeli military is raiding the occupied West Bank town of Tammun, south of Tubas, and surrounded a house.
Videos posted on Telegram and verified by Al Jazeera’s Sanad unit show army vehicles stationed inside the town.
Heavy gunfire could be heard after the Israeli army entered from the Atouf military checkpoint and a bulldozer is at the scene, the Palestinian Wafa news agency reported.
Israeli forces raid school in Masafer Yatta area, destroy cameras
The Israeli army has conducted an overnight raid on the town of Jinba, in the southern West Bank’s Masafer Yatta area, damaging property.
Basel Adra, co-director of the Oscar-winning film No Other Land, said on X the army broke the cameras used to film Friday’s settler attack that seriously injured a Palestinian teenager and his father.
During the night, occupation soldiers invaded the village of Jinba/ Masafer Yatta. They destroyed the school’s furniture, windows, the solar panels that supply the school with electricity, and the cameras that had documented the pogrome carried out by settlers the yesterday. pic.twitter.com/Vz52mTR0I6
— Basel Adra (@basel_adra) March 29, 2025
The many ways Israeli settlers steal Palestinian homes
Ghassan Abdel Basset and his family left their home in the occupied West Bank to visit a relative. They were going to break their fast together during the holy month of Ramadan.
Later that evening, their neighbours informed them that Israeli settlers invaded their home. Ghassan hurried back to confront the settlers, but the Israeli army intervened to block him and his family from getting back to their house.
“The settlers claim they bought the house from someone, but nobody gave this person the legal right to sell our house,” Ghassan told Al Jazeera.
