Coward Israeli Settlers Attack Elderly Palestinian Couple

Palestinian family's brutal beating by Israeli settlers has been captured on video and aired just a week before the UN Security Council is set to consider a resolution condemning construction of Israeli settlements in Palestinian territory.

The BBC reports that the video, recorded last Sunday, shows four men attacking an elderly shepherd, his wife, and his nephew after the four told the shepherd to move his flock, which was grazing near the settlement of Susia in the West Bank. The BBC describes the film, which is available on its website:

Over the brow of the hill walk four masked men holding baseball bats. To the right of the screen, in the foreground, stands a 58-year-old Palestinian woman.

Thamam al-Nawaja has been herding her goats close to the Jewish settlement of Susia, near Hebron in the southern West Bank.

Within a few seconds, she, along with her 70-year-old husband and one of her nephews, will be beaten up.

As the first blows land, the woman filming - the daughter-in-law of the elderly couple - drops the camera and runs for help.

The BBC writes that Mrs. Nawaja was hospitalized for three days after the attack with a broken arm and fractured cheek. After returning home, she told the BBC that her attackers "don't want us to stay on our land. But we won't leave. We'll die here. It's ours." Agence France-Presse reports that an Israeli police spokesperson says an investigation has been opened, but no arrests have been made.

The International Middle East Media Center, a joint media effort between Palestinian and international journalists, reports that "Attacks by extremist Israeli Jewish settlers against the indigenous Palestinian population of the West Bank are common, and the incidents have increased as Israeli settlements have expanded on Palestinian land over the last 15 years."

The recording of this particular attack was made possible by the "Shooting Back" project launched by the Israeli human rights group B'Tselem. On its website, B'Tselem writes that by handing out more than 100 video cameras to Palestinian families in the West Bank, it hopes to provide them with a tool to prove illegal abuses they suffer at the hands of settlers.

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[WikeddTung]

of course the settlements are illegal so the settlers would have to be criminals. fuck israel. end US aid to those zionist cunts.

[ALGMHDZ]

@rx8andrej nothing is yours pussy...stealing land with the help the usa..zionism=terrorism

israel sucks my left nut

[XxModernDayRaiderxX]

@SunsetSix you are the biggest dumb shit i have seen yet there are skeptics, fox news, mentaly handicap then there is you

[shadowofears]

@jsbeard18 This is a video released by Israeli human rights group and its their claim

[pinball281]

WATCH THE ARRIVALS!!!

[SunsetSix]

Bullshit. If that cheek wound @18 had been made by a baseball bat it would have caved the side of her face in. And the camera work? This smells like a mooslim attempt at disinformation. Those don't appear to be Israeli settlers, they appear to be young Palestinian toughs making their film debut.

[ALGMHDZ]

@jesusonXTC..ur the fuckin terrorist...fuckin racist piece of shit. zionism=terrorism

[jesusonXTC]

Good job settlers. Kill those Palestinian fucks. Terrorist shits

[InGallifrey]

Jew, Palestinian, american, etc etc etc if you KILL you are buying a ticket to hell.

People are fighting the wrong people.

Lets do it old school, soldier to soldier mano a mano.

Not giant soldier to innocent old women, or soldier to tiny 5 month old child.

[AFGwarrior786]

fuck jews death to israel