Settlers throw stones at Palestinian villagers. The picture was taken on 15 April near the village of Burin (south of Nablus). The settlers were from the outpost Givat Ronen. (Photo AFP/Jaafar Ashtiyeh).
Israeli forces detained a Palestinian farmer in Nablus on Wednesday on suspicion of attempting to stab a settler after a group assaulted him and cut down his olive trees. Palestinian security officials told Ma'an that settlers from Maale Levona assaulted Khalid Samih Daraghmah and his son while they were tending their trees south of Nablus near al-Lubban ash-Sharqiyah. His son Jalal (19) was brutally beaten during the attack.
The farmers filed a complaint at the Palestinian liaison department, who referred it to the Israeli office.
After reporting the assault, Israeli forces arrested Samih Daraghmah, claiming that he had tried to stab one of the settlers.
In 2013, 399 incidents of settler violence against Palestinians in the occupied West Bank were reported, according to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. More than 90 percent of these complaints are never investigated, let alone that they lead to indictments. Many incidents are never reported as the Palestinians think reporting is useless.
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