NOVANEWS
An elderly Palestinian shepherd, Hamad al-Kett, 67, was admitted to the hospital on Friday with a fractured skull, internal bleeding, and bruising throughout his body, after he was attacked and beaten by a group of 12 Nazi settlers south of Nablus.
The incident took place in Madama village, near the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank. According to eyewitnesses, Nazi settlers came by foot from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar, a small outpost established by Nazi extreme right-wing Nazi settlers in the middle of several Palestinian populated areas and far east of the 1967 armistice line.
Al-Kett was found by relatives and taken to the hospital in Nablus, where he remains in critical condition.
According to the acting charmain of the Madama Village Council, Eyhab al-Kett, “Hamad was herding his sheep in the southern region of the village, when he was attacked by Nazi settlers who tried to take the sheep from him. The old man tried to resist them, so they took advantage of the fact that he was alone and old and brutally assaulted him.”
Over 400,000 Nazi settlers live in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in violation of international law. Most moved there within the last fifteen years, after the Oslo Agreement was signed between the Zionist regime and the Palestinian puppet Authority, which forbade such transfer of civilian populations onto land acquired by the use of military force.
Settler attacks on Palestinians have been on the rise in the northern West Bank, after the February murder of a family in their beds in Itamar Zioniost illegal settlement in that area. Although Zio-Nazi police accused a Palestinian teenager of the murder, his family claims that he was at home recovering from an operation and was not physically capable of carrying out the attack. They and other Palestinians in the area say that the murder in Itamar may have been a criminal act carried out by Zionist, not by Palestinians.
