Footage Shows Settler Shooting Palestinians in Hebron
Bethlehem - Ma'an - An Israeli human rights organization released footage to Ma'an documenting an Israeli settler shooting two members of a Palestinian family on Thursday in Hebron.
Video still of the shooting
provided by B'Tselem [Ma'anImage
B’Tselem provided the footage, which was originally filmed by Palestinian resident of Hebron Jamal Abu-Sa'ifan following the eviction of the new settlement on Thursday afternoon.
Settlers attacked the nearby house of the Abu-Se'ifan family and during ensuing clashes, a settler fired his handgun at 40-year-old Hosni Abu-Se'ifan, who was shot in the chest and is in stable condition. His father, 65-year-old Abd al-Hai Abu-Sa'ifan, was moderately wounded in the arm. The two were taken to a Hebron hospital.
The video shows other members of the family, who manage to overcome the shooter, before a security guard from the nearby settlement of Kiryat Arba arrives at the scene and fires his weapon in the air.
B'Tselem is currently delivering the video to the Hebron Police, "demanding that the assailant is immediately brought to justice and that the involvement of the security guard be investigated."
Additionally, the rights group is demanding that security forces "investigate the failures that allowed settlers to riot throughout the afternoon and evening in Hebron's Palestinian neighborhoods."
B'Tselem also claimed that the Israeli army knew "in advance" that settlers would attack Palestinians in reaction to the eviction.
The statement and video came a day after a "wave of settler violence” was unleashed against Palestinians in retaliation for the Israeli army's actions against illegal settlements in Hebron.
Israeli forces forcibly removed 250 right-wing settlers from a Palestinian house in the West Bank city of Hebron, weeks after the Israeli High Court ordered their eviction.
Settlers have repeatedly attacked Palestinian homes in the city over the past few days. Prior to the evacuation, Israeli settlers fired randomly at Palestinian homes. Settlers set fire to two Palestinian homes and a store, later attacking a number of residents in the Wadi Hussein area of Hebron.
The evacuation touched off violent settler attacks across the West Bank.
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