A horde of Jewish settlers on Saturday evening physically assaulted Palestinian human rights activist Imad Abu Shamsia and his son in Tel Rumeida neighborhood in al-Khalil city south of the occupied West Bank.
Abu Shamsia said that dozens of settlers attacked his house in Tel Rumeida neighborhood in the Old City of al-Khalil and violently assaulted him and his son Salah adding that he and his son suffered injuries during the attack.
He also said that Israeli soldiers prevented him and his son from leaving their home or to go to hospital to receive medical assistance.
The attack was the third of its kind carried out by Jewish settlers in the past 24 hours in the Old City of al-Khalil. At least 10 Palestinians suffered injuries in similar assaults in the neighborhoods of Ghaith as-Salayma and Tel Rumeida and near the Ibrahimi Mosque.
