Police arrested a 16-year-old boy from the Israeli settlement of Avigayil in relation to the beating of a 61-year-old Palestinian man with a pipe in the occupied West Bank.
Video showed Saeed Muhammad Ibrahim Rabah being attacked outside his home, leaving him with bruises and pain, a year after he lost a leg after being shot by a settler.
Rabah told The Associated Press that two settlers arrived with a tractor at his home in Khirbet Al-Rakeez in the southern West Bank on Saturday afternoon.
One of them began moving stones the family had placed at the property entrance and tried to enter.
One settler struck him on his back with a pipe when he approached them to find out what they were doing, Rabah said.
He said the violence is an effort to make families like his leave.
“We will remain, no matter what happens,” he said after going to the police on Sunday to file a report.
“This is our land and this is our homeland, and we must protect it.”
Police said they also took in for questioning a 17-year-old from Jerusalem, who allegedly stood nearby and filmed the assault with a phone.
Rabah said in April 2025, he confronted settlers on his land while his son filmed and one of them shot him in the leg, which was amputated at a hospital.
Separately, Israel’s military said on Sunday they were pursuing the suspect in a stabbing attack that injured a 24-year-old Israeli man in the area of Al-Auja, in the eastern West Bank.
Israel’s emergency services said the victim was taken to a hospital in moderate condition.
Violence has escalated in the West Bank, where at least 87 Palestinians have been killed in almost 1,500 attacks by Israeli settlers and soldiers this year, according to Palestinian officials.
Three Israelis have been killed by Palestinians in 2026.
The uptick in violence corresponds with the Israeli government’s approval of new settlements and the expansion of outposts that it doesn’t authorize but often leaves in place, according to a report by an Israeli group that collects information about potential human rights violations against Palestinians.
