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A palestinian A masked man almost killed a woman jewish settlers When she was picking olives, in a desperate gesture ongoing stress between two groups.
The 55-year-old woman, Afaf Abu Alia, known locally as Umm Saleh, was taken hospital Sunday after being struck on the head by a masked resident.
This brutal encounter was captured on video We Journalist Jasper Nathaniel, who was with a palestinian Farmers at the Olive Festival.
When the couple tried to leave, armed residents blocked the exit. They asked for help from nearby Israeli soldiers, who he said agreed at first but then got into their vehicles and drove away.
He told that at this time a person living with a club started running behind him and his friend. Independent: “Then the settlers appear, literally out of nowhere.

“I’m running for my life right now… The guy with the club was chasing me, and when I get in the car he starts attacking the car and hitting the windshield.
“Then from the car we see the woman standing there, and we honestly think he’s going to run away from her, but then he grabs her, and I see she’s knocked unconscious from the first blow, but then he hits her again after the first blow.
“It was the worst individual act of violence that I have seen. I’ve seen incidents where more people were injured, I’ve seen places where people were shot, but at the level of gathering women together and having a large number of settlers come out and chase them, I’ve never seen anything so extreme.”
In a statement, israeli defense forces Said the incident was later resolved soldiers Came to stop the settler.
The IDF said, “A report was received of disturbances that included vehicle arson and physical violence committed by Israeli civilians near the Shiloh settlement in the Samaria district.”

“Upon receipt of the report, the IDF and israel Police forces reached the spot to disperse the disturbance. When the army arrived, the conflict dispersed.”
A spokesman for Israel Police’s Judeo and Samaria district confirmed that police had launched a crackdown. Investigation In the incident.
However, Nathaniel, a freelance journalist from Brooklyn, said that no officers arrived immediately after the incident: “They did not arrive at the scene.”
He said that after the attack on the Turmusiyah olive farms, people started running and once he and others got closer. palestinian The settlers stopped chasing them in the village but set some cars on fire before leaving.

In the footage, the attacker can be seen holding a wooden stick with a knot tied at one end. He swings it upwards and hits Abu Alia. He was later seen bleeding and was taken to a vehicle to be taken to hospital.
Nathaniel confirmed that Abu Alia is recovering.
“The woman who has been settled here is Umm Saleh Abu Alia, 55. She is up and talking,” he wrote on Twitter.
“She says she got into the car when she heard the settlers being attacked, but came back out to see two children who were hit by stones thrown by the settlers.”

Since October 7, attacks by settlers have increased significantly.
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs reported in 2025 that more than 3,200 Palestinians were injured by attacks across the country. west coast,
In April 2024, attacks on settlers began after an Israeli teenager, 14-year-old Binyamin Achimair, was killed in a Palestinian attack.
The body was found in the West Bank occupied by the Prime Minister benjamin netanyahu It has been described as a “terrorist attack”.
Jewish Despite appeals from Defense Minister Yoav Galant, who urged Israelis not to take the law into their own hands, settlers entered a nearby Palestinian village and set fire to houses and cars.
Last week, American citizen Kamel Musallet, father of 20-year-old Saifollah, spoke after his son The settlers beat him brutally, but he died before an ambulance could reach him.