Masked Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinian farmers and foreign activists accompanying them for protection in the West Bank town of Qusra on Sunday, according to victims of the attack and videos obtained by CNN.
Eight activists were participating as part of a Palestinian grassroots campaign called Defend Palestine, which calls on international volunteers to travel to the Israeli-occupied West Bank to protect Palestinians from Israeli settler attacks.
Three of the foreign victims, Vivi Chen, David Hummel, and Jedda, who declined to give her last name, spoke with CNN about the attack from hospital in the West Bank city of Nablus, where they were receiving treatment.
They said they were accompanying Palestinian farmers to their olive fields, which they haven’t been able to access since October because of attacks by Israeli settlers.
Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan in the 1967 war and soon started settling Jews on the land.
Sunday’s assault followed a separate attack on Saturday in the West Bank, south of Hebron.
A video obtained by CNN shows Israeli settlers attacking a Palestinian family with sticks and beating some of them to the ground before a soldier fires a warning shot and the video ends. »
