Israeli settlers attack Palestinian family in West Bank

The Alayan family were attacked by around 10 Jewish settlers, who were wearing masks and carrying batons, hurling stones at them.

The Palestinian parents and their eight children were screaming, and subsequent pictures showed the father, Sa’id Alayan, carried on a stretcher with a bloodied, bandaged face.

Sa’id was moderately injured and his wife, who recorded the images, suffered from a light injury, the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa, said.

The family says it owns the land and they go there every Saturday, fearing the settlers will seize it to extend the Mitzpe Yair outpost, which is built without the Israeli authoristion, in southern Hebron.

Many of the Jewish settler outposts have been established by religious fundamentalists, who are hostile and violent to the local Palestinian population.