29 nov 2014
A group of 50 ultra-Orthodox Zionist rabbis have signed a petition calling on the Jews to continue desecrating the Aqsa Mosque and participate in their march to the holy site on Sunday.
The rabbis said the petition, which was published on Jewish websites on Friday evening, comes in the wake of what they described as "terrorist" attacks in Jerusalem.
The petition called on the Jews to ascend the Aqsa Mosque to strengthen their claim to the temple mount and said that their presence at the Mosque is in accordance with Jewish teachings.
The most prominent rabbis that have signed the petition are Dov Lior, Nahum Rabinovitch and Ram Hacohen. Some of these religious figures had issued religious rulings legalizing the killing of Arabs.
The petition considered that the attempted murder of right-wing Jewish activist Yehuda Glick provided the Jews with an impetus to continue their ascension to the temple.
The rabbis said the petition, which was published on Jewish websites on Friday evening, comes in the wake of what they described as "terrorist" attacks in Jerusalem.
The petition called on the Jews to ascend the Aqsa Mosque to strengthen their claim to the temple mount and said that their presence at the Mosque is in accordance with Jewish teachings.
The most prominent rabbis that have signed the petition are Dov Lior, Nahum Rabinovitch and Ram Hacohen. Some of these religious figures had issued religious rulings legalizing the killing of Arabs.
The petition considered that the attempted murder of right-wing Jewish activist Yehuda Glick provided the Jews with an impetus to continue their ascension to the temple.
28 nov 2014
The Israeli occupation police neglect 92 percent of the complaints filed by Palestinians citizens about Jewish settlers' attacks, an Israeli organization revealed Thursday.
Statistics published by the human rights group Yesh Din noted that the Israeli authorities close Palestinian complaint files against settlers without finding the perpetrators.
According to the report, only 7.4 percent of the investigation files led to indictments against Israelis suspected of attacking Palestinians and their property, while the vast majority of the complaint filed were closed due to the alleged failure of the police to locate offenders or collect sufficient evidence for prosecution.
The report revealed that over half of the investigations Yesh Din examined were characterized by negligence, lack of professionalism, insufficient investigative actions, and failure to meet accepted investigation standards.
Yesh Din, itself, filed 1,045 complaints on behalf of Palestinians with the Israeli police between 2005 to November 2014, but all to no avail.
The complaints were made about shooting incidents, violent assault, stoning, arson, destroying trees and crops, attacks on animals, construction on Palestinian-owned land, threats, harassment, and other offences committed by Israeli settlers.
Statistics published by the human rights group Yesh Din noted that the Israeli authorities close Palestinian complaint files against settlers without finding the perpetrators.
According to the report, only 7.4 percent of the investigation files led to indictments against Israelis suspected of attacking Palestinians and their property, while the vast majority of the complaint filed were closed due to the alleged failure of the police to locate offenders or collect sufficient evidence for prosecution.
The report revealed that over half of the investigations Yesh Din examined were characterized by negligence, lack of professionalism, insufficient investigative actions, and failure to meet accepted investigation standards.
Yesh Din, itself, filed 1,045 complaints on behalf of Palestinians with the Israeli police between 2005 to November 2014, but all to no avail.
The complaints were made about shooting incidents, violent assault, stoning, arson, destroying trees and crops, attacks on animals, construction on Palestinian-owned land, threats, harassment, and other offences committed by Israeli settlers.
Israeli settlers, on Thursday, attempted to kidnap a Palestinian minor to the south of Hebron, while others attacked a car shop and its owner in Qalqilia, according to security sources.
According to WAFA correspondence, settlers from the settlement "Nahal Negohot", built illegally on land west of Dura, to the south of Hebron, attempted to kidnap 11-year-old Amir Abu Sharar before local residents intervened and saved the child from abduction.
Meanwhile, in the area of Qalqilia, settlers attacked a car shop and severely beat the owner, Ahmad Abu Bakir, before fleeing the scene. Mr. Abu Bakir reportedly sustained bruises throughout his body and was transferred to a hospital for treatment.
WAFA notes that settler attacks -- which have been ongoing for years, with Israeli forces making no attempts to stop them -- have escalated recently in light of the current tension in the region, particularly in Jerusalem.
During the past week, several settler attacks and kidnapping attempts were reported.
According to WAFA correspondence, settlers from the settlement "Nahal Negohot", built illegally on land west of Dura, to the south of Hebron, attempted to kidnap 11-year-old Amir Abu Sharar before local residents intervened and saved the child from abduction.
Meanwhile, in the area of Qalqilia, settlers attacked a car shop and severely beat the owner, Ahmad Abu Bakir, before fleeing the scene. Mr. Abu Bakir reportedly sustained bruises throughout his body and was transferred to a hospital for treatment.
WAFA notes that settler attacks -- which have been ongoing for years, with Israeli forces making no attempts to stop them -- have escalated recently in light of the current tension in the region, particularly in Jerusalem.
During the past week, several settler attacks and kidnapping attempts were reported.
27 nov 2014
Israeli soldiers kidnapped, on Thursday at dawn, fifteen Palestinians in different parts of the occupied West Bank, and in occupied East Jerusalem, and took them to a number of interrogation and detention centers. Settlers attack a Palestinian near Jenin.
The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) stated that dozens of soldiers invaded different neighborhoods in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and Beit Ummar nearby town, and kidnapped eight Palestinians.
The kidnapped have been identified as Abdul-‘Alim Da’na, 65, a political leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Sa’adi Mohammad an-Natsha, Ramadan Qfeisha, Ashraf Talal Abu Sneina, Khaled Taiseer Rajabi, Ahmad Mohammad Ekhlayyil, 19, Mahmoud Mohammad Ekhlayyil, 18, and Yousef Mohammad Za’aqeeq, 21.
The soldiers also handed resident Jihad Nasser Ekhlayyil, 20, a military warrant for interrogation in the Etzion Military base, south of Bethlehem.
In addition, soldiers invaded a bakery in the ‘Asseeda area in Hebron, and detained the workers for several hours. The soldiers also fired gas bombs at a number of homes in the area.
In occupied Jerusalem, soldiers invaded the al-‘Eesawiyya town, and the Shu’fat refugee camp, in the center of the city, and kidnapped four Palestinians.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers kidnapped Waleed ‘Awni Mahmoud, Mohammad Issa ‘Obeid, and Abdul-Qader Dari from al-‘Eesawiyya, and Sha’ban Hammad from Shu’fat refugee camp.
Also in Jerusalem, soldiers invaded and ransacked a number of homes in the Old City, and nearby neighborhoods, and interrogated several Palestinians.
Soldiers also invaded handed ‘Adel Issa Hijazi, 42, from Bethlehem, a warrant for interrogation in the Etzion military base. Hijazi was trying to cross the Za’tara Israeli military roadblock, south of the northern west Bank city of Nablus.
In addition, soldiers invaded the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, broke into and searched several homes, and kidnapped three Palestinians.
WAFA said the soldiers kidnapped Mohammad Shaker Nayfa, 19, Yousef Omar Sarhan, 19, and Nasr As’ad Zaghal, 24, while a fourth resident, identified as Raed Ziad Hajar, was handed a warrant for interrogation.
On Wednesday evening, a number of extremist Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian in Qalqilia, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Eyewitnesses said the settlers invaded a car repair facility in Nabi Elias area, in Qalqilia, and assaulted the owner, Ahmad Mohammad Abu Bakr, causing various cuts and bruises that required hospitalization.
The Palestinian News & Info Agency (WAFA) stated that dozens of soldiers invaded different neighborhoods in Hebron city, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, and Beit Ummar nearby town, and kidnapped eight Palestinians.
The kidnapped have been identified as Abdul-‘Alim Da’na, 65, a political leader of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), Sa’adi Mohammad an-Natsha, Ramadan Qfeisha, Ashraf Talal Abu Sneina, Khaled Taiseer Rajabi, Ahmad Mohammad Ekhlayyil, 19, Mahmoud Mohammad Ekhlayyil, 18, and Yousef Mohammad Za’aqeeq, 21.
The soldiers also handed resident Jihad Nasser Ekhlayyil, 20, a military warrant for interrogation in the Etzion Military base, south of Bethlehem.
In addition, soldiers invaded a bakery in the ‘Asseeda area in Hebron, and detained the workers for several hours. The soldiers also fired gas bombs at a number of homes in the area.
In occupied Jerusalem, soldiers invaded the al-‘Eesawiyya town, and the Shu’fat refugee camp, in the center of the city, and kidnapped four Palestinians.
Eyewitnesses said the soldiers kidnapped Waleed ‘Awni Mahmoud, Mohammad Issa ‘Obeid, and Abdul-Qader Dari from al-‘Eesawiyya, and Sha’ban Hammad from Shu’fat refugee camp.
Also in Jerusalem, soldiers invaded and ransacked a number of homes in the Old City, and nearby neighborhoods, and interrogated several Palestinians.
Soldiers also invaded handed ‘Adel Issa Hijazi, 42, from Bethlehem, a warrant for interrogation in the Etzion military base. Hijazi was trying to cross the Za’tara Israeli military roadblock, south of the northern west Bank city of Nablus.
In addition, soldiers invaded the northern West Bank city of Tulkarem, broke into and searched several homes, and kidnapped three Palestinians.
WAFA said the soldiers kidnapped Mohammad Shaker Nayfa, 19, Yousef Omar Sarhan, 19, and Nasr As’ad Zaghal, 24, while a fourth resident, identified as Raed Ziad Hajar, was handed a warrant for interrogation.
On Wednesday evening, a number of extremist Israeli settlers attacked a Palestinian in Qalqilia, near the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Eyewitnesses said the settlers invaded a car repair facility in Nabi Elias area, in Qalqilia, and assaulted the owner, Ahmad Mohammad Abu Bakr, causing various cuts and bruises that required hospitalization.
A Jerusalemite boy suffered moderate injuries Wednesday after being deliberately rammed by a settlers’ car to the east of occupied Jerusalem.
Jerusalemite sources confirmed that the settlers intentionally ran over the boy Ayoub Jaradat who was transferred to hospital for treatment.
Unrest has gripped occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank on an almost daily basis for the past two months. The tension heightened after a group of settlers hanged to death a Jerusalemite bus driver.
Jerusalemite sources confirmed that the settlers intentionally ran over the boy Ayoub Jaradat who was transferred to hospital for treatment.
Unrest has gripped occupied Jerusalem and the West Bank on an almost daily basis for the past two months. The tension heightened after a group of settlers hanged to death a Jerusalemite bus driver.
26 nov 2014
A number of Jewish settlers desecrated the holy Aqsa Mosque in occupied Jerusalem on Wednesday morning under tight Israeli police protection.
The settlers toured the Aqsa plazas while listening to explanations about the alleged Temple and its location.
Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli policemen and border guards at gates of the holy site searched and confiscated IDs of young men wishing to enter the Aqsa.
The settlers toured the Aqsa plazas while listening to explanations about the alleged Temple and its location.
Eyewitnesses said that the Israeli policemen and border guards at gates of the holy site searched and confiscated IDs of young men wishing to enter the Aqsa.
West Jerusalem Holyland Tower
Israeli settlers, Tuesday, assaulted a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem, causing injuries in neck and back, according to local sources.
25-year-old Islam Mazen Ebeid was in West Jerusalem when six Israeli settlers approached him and severely beat him, his father said.
The young man was transferred to hospital for medical treatment, WAFA stated.
Over 500,000 settlers now reportedly live in various developments across the occupied territories, in contravention of international law.
While retaliatory acts of of violence by Palestinians are highlighted by mainstream press and used as a basis for further incitement, Israeli settlers repeatedly attack Palestinians and their property, unapproached by Israeli forces, who frequently protect them during the acts or simply stand by watching.
Israeli settlers, Tuesday, assaulted a Palestinian resident of Jerusalem, causing injuries in neck and back, according to local sources.
25-year-old Islam Mazen Ebeid was in West Jerusalem when six Israeli settlers approached him and severely beat him, his father said.
The young man was transferred to hospital for medical treatment, WAFA stated.
Over 500,000 settlers now reportedly live in various developments across the occupied territories, in contravention of international law.
While retaliatory acts of of violence by Palestinians are highlighted by mainstream press and used as a basis for further incitement, Israeli settlers repeatedly attack Palestinians and their property, unapproached by Israeli forces, who frequently protect them during the acts or simply stand by watching.
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the Israeli settlers' ongoing and escalated attacks on Palestinian civilians in the West Bank.
The latest of these attacks has been against a house belonging to a Palestinian woman in Kherbet Abu Falah village, northeast of Ramallah, and throwing a tear gas canister and a sound bomb into the house balcony, due to which the balcony contents caught fire.
PCHR believes the Israeli forces' cover-up of settlers' attacks and even support and protection for them encourage settlers to continue their systematic attacks against the Palestinian civilians.
PCHR believes further that such crimes come in the context of the continuing incitement by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people.
As a result, settlers have been pushed towards more extremism and hatred against Palestinians. PCHR condemns these attacks, the Israeli government's silence and even support for them.
Moreover, PCHR calls upon the international community to immediately take an action to protect the Palestinian civilians in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).
According to investigations conducted by PCHR, in the early morning on Sunday, 23 November 2014, a group of settlers sneaked into Kherbet Abu Falah village, northeast of Ramallah.
They headed towards a house belonging to Huda Abdul Ghani Abdul Rahim Hamayel (54) and tried to raid it.
They broke the balcony's window, spilled an incendiary substance inside and set fire to the balcony's contents after throwing a tear gas canister and a sound bomb inside.
The armchairs, chairs, curtains and other furniture pieces in the balcony caught fire.
The settlers wrote on the house walls in Hebrew "Death to Arabs, avenging the blood of religious Jews". They also drew David Star, pointing to the Jews who were killed by a Palestinian from Jerusalem in occupied Jerusalem inside a synagogue 5 days before this attack.
It should be noted that it is the first time that settlers use tear gas canisters and sound bombs in their attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the oPt.
Hamayel stated to a PCHR fieldworker:
"I was with my 3 daughters aged 11-27 in our house in al-Sha'ab neighborhood in the north of Kherbet Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah. At approximately 03:30 on Sunday, 23 November 2014, we woke up to a strange movement behind the house from the western side. I thought there were thieves or Israeli soldiers around.
I immediately switched the lights on and then heard as if someone was climbing the outer stairs. In the meanwhile, I heard something had hit the balcony's door and broken the balcony's window.
I noticed someone was attempting to open the inner steel door. I tried to know who those people were, but nobody answered. My daughters and I started screaming and calling neighbors and relatives for help.
A minute later, I heard people talking in Hebrew and then throwing a sound bomb inside the balcony, due to which, we heard an explosion and were frightened.
Moreover, they threw a gas cansiter and then a Molotov cocktail and ran away to the mountain area towards "Adi Add" settlement outpost, which is 3 kilometers away from us.
The armchairs, chairs, curtains and other furniture pieces in the balcony caught fire. In the meantime, neighbors arrived to extinguish fire.
Forty minutes later, a Palestinian civil defense vehicle arrived and extinguished fire. We got out of the house and noticed writings in Hebrew and David Star on the walls. The writings stated "Death to Arabs, avenging the blood of the religious Jews".
At approximately 07:00, Israeli forces and police came and photographed the house. They took my statement regarding what had happened and seized some items used by the settlers in the balcony.
At approximately 11:00, the Israeli police and liaison officers came again and asked me to go to the police station in "Beit Eil" at 13:00 to file a complaint".
PCHR, which has been warning against the Israeli settlers' attacks on Palestinian civilians and their property, strongly condemns such attacks and the government's silence towards them. Therefore, PCHR:
1. Calls upon Israeli forces to stop offering protection to settlers and covering up their crimes against Palestinian civilians and their property, which encourage them to continue their attacks. PCHR calls also upon the Israeli government to prosecute the criminals and bring them to justice;
2. Calls upon the international community to exert pressure on the Israeli government in order to fulfill its obligations under international law to put an end to settlement activities in the oPt; and
3. Reminds the international community that settlement activities constitute a war crime according to international law.
Therefore, the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention, individually and collectively, are legally and morally responsible for fulfilling their obligations and ensuring Israel's respect to and application of the Convention in the oPt according to article 1 of the Convention.
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For more information please call PCHR office in Gaza, Gaza Strip, on +972 8 2824776 - 2825893
PCHR, 29 Omer El Mukhtar St., El Remal, PO Box 1328 Gaza, Gaza Strip. E-mail: pchr@pchrgaza.org, Webpage http://www.pchrgaza.org
The latest of these attacks has been against a house belonging to a Palestinian woman in Kherbet Abu Falah village, northeast of Ramallah, and throwing a tear gas canister and a sound bomb into the house balcony, due to which the balcony contents caught fire.
PCHR believes the Israeli forces' cover-up of settlers' attacks and even support and protection for them encourage settlers to continue their systematic attacks against the Palestinian civilians.
PCHR believes further that such crimes come in the context of the continuing incitement by the Israeli government against the Palestinian people.
As a result, settlers have been pushed towards more extremism and hatred against Palestinians. PCHR condemns these attacks, the Israeli government's silence and even support for them.
Moreover, PCHR calls upon the international community to immediately take an action to protect the Palestinian civilians in the occupied Palestinian territory (oPt).
According to investigations conducted by PCHR, in the early morning on Sunday, 23 November 2014, a group of settlers sneaked into Kherbet Abu Falah village, northeast of Ramallah.
They headed towards a house belonging to Huda Abdul Ghani Abdul Rahim Hamayel (54) and tried to raid it.
They broke the balcony's window, spilled an incendiary substance inside and set fire to the balcony's contents after throwing a tear gas canister and a sound bomb inside.
The armchairs, chairs, curtains and other furniture pieces in the balcony caught fire.
The settlers wrote on the house walls in Hebrew "Death to Arabs, avenging the blood of religious Jews". They also drew David Star, pointing to the Jews who were killed by a Palestinian from Jerusalem in occupied Jerusalem inside a synagogue 5 days before this attack.
It should be noted that it is the first time that settlers use tear gas canisters and sound bombs in their attacks against Palestinian civilians and their property in the oPt.
Hamayel stated to a PCHR fieldworker:
"I was with my 3 daughters aged 11-27 in our house in al-Sha'ab neighborhood in the north of Kherbet Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah. At approximately 03:30 on Sunday, 23 November 2014, we woke up to a strange movement behind the house from the western side. I thought there were thieves or Israeli soldiers around.
I immediately switched the lights on and then heard as if someone was climbing the outer stairs. In the meanwhile, I heard something had hit the balcony's door and broken the balcony's window.
I noticed someone was attempting to open the inner steel door. I tried to know who those people were, but nobody answered. My daughters and I started screaming and calling neighbors and relatives for help.
A minute later, I heard people talking in Hebrew and then throwing a sound bomb inside the balcony, due to which, we heard an explosion and were frightened.
Moreover, they threw a gas cansiter and then a Molotov cocktail and ran away to the mountain area towards "Adi Add" settlement outpost, which is 3 kilometers away from us.
The armchairs, chairs, curtains and other furniture pieces in the balcony caught fire. In the meantime, neighbors arrived to extinguish fire.
Forty minutes later, a Palestinian civil defense vehicle arrived and extinguished fire. We got out of the house and noticed writings in Hebrew and David Star on the walls. The writings stated "Death to Arabs, avenging the blood of the religious Jews".
At approximately 07:00, Israeli forces and police came and photographed the house. They took my statement regarding what had happened and seized some items used by the settlers in the balcony.
At approximately 11:00, the Israeli police and liaison officers came again and asked me to go to the police station in "Beit Eil" at 13:00 to file a complaint".
PCHR, which has been warning against the Israeli settlers' attacks on Palestinian civilians and their property, strongly condemns such attacks and the government's silence towards them. Therefore, PCHR:
1. Calls upon Israeli forces to stop offering protection to settlers and covering up their crimes against Palestinian civilians and their property, which encourage them to continue their attacks. PCHR calls also upon the Israeli government to prosecute the criminals and bring them to justice;
2. Calls upon the international community to exert pressure on the Israeli government in order to fulfill its obligations under international law to put an end to settlement activities in the oPt; and
3. Reminds the international community that settlement activities constitute a war crime according to international law.
Therefore, the High Contracting Parties to the Fourth Geneva Convention, individually and collectively, are legally and morally responsible for fulfilling their obligations and ensuring Israel's respect to and application of the Convention in the oPt according to article 1 of the Convention.
Public Document
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For more information please call PCHR office in Gaza, Gaza Strip, on +972 8 2824776 - 2825893
PCHR, 29 Omer El Mukhtar St., El Remal, PO Box 1328 Gaza, Gaza Strip. E-mail: pchr@pchrgaza.org, Webpage http://www.pchrgaza.org
25 nov 2014
Young man attacked by a number of fanatic settlers
Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Monday evening, that a child suffered several fractures and bruises, after being struck by a speeding settler’s vehicle, west of occupied Jerusalem.
The sources said that Khalil Khamis al-Keswani, 14 years of age, suffered a fracture in his left leg, and various cuts and bruises to different parts of his body.
The child’s father, Khamis al-Keswani, said a settler deliberately attacked his son, and chased him with his car, adding that his child managed to run away from the car after the initial impact.
Khamis complained that it took the police and the Israeli ambulance a while before they actually arrived at the scene, near Deir Yassin, in West Jerusalem.
Also on Monday evening, a number of fanatic settlers attacked a Palestinian identified as Mahmoud Issam Obeid, 19, near the French Hill settlement, as he was walking home in the al-‘Eesawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem.
Obeid said he was heading home after work when some settlers approached him, asking for a light, and when he said he doesn’t have one; the settlers attacked him while carrying knives and batons.
The assailants tried to stab him, and managed to hit him with their batons before he ran away; he was moved to the al-Makassed hospital suffering a fracture in his left leg.
There have been daily attacks carried out by Israeli extremists against the Palestinians, their cars and property, in different parts of occupied Jerusalem this past week.
The attacks included stabbing, beating, using pepper spray, puncturing tires, and writing racist graffiti.
Palestinian medical sources have reported, on Monday evening, that a child suffered several fractures and bruises, after being struck by a speeding settler’s vehicle, west of occupied Jerusalem.
The sources said that Khalil Khamis al-Keswani, 14 years of age, suffered a fracture in his left leg, and various cuts and bruises to different parts of his body.
The child’s father, Khamis al-Keswani, said a settler deliberately attacked his son, and chased him with his car, adding that his child managed to run away from the car after the initial impact.
Khamis complained that it took the police and the Israeli ambulance a while before they actually arrived at the scene, near Deir Yassin, in West Jerusalem.
Also on Monday evening, a number of fanatic settlers attacked a Palestinian identified as Mahmoud Issam Obeid, 19, near the French Hill settlement, as he was walking home in the al-‘Eesawiyya town, in occupied East Jerusalem.
Obeid said he was heading home after work when some settlers approached him, asking for a light, and when he said he doesn’t have one; the settlers attacked him while carrying knives and batons.
The assailants tried to stab him, and managed to hit him with their batons before he ran away; he was moved to the al-Makassed hospital suffering a fracture in his left leg.
There have been daily attacks carried out by Israeli extremists against the Palestinians, their cars and property, in different parts of occupied Jerusalem this past week.
The attacks included stabbing, beating, using pepper spray, puncturing tires, and writing racist graffiti.
Two Jewish settlers suffered injuries on Monday evening in an alleged stabbing attack near Jaffa Gate in the Old City of Jerusalem, Israeli news reports said.
According to Israel's channel 2, a group of Palestinians attacked three settlers after they left a religious school near Jaffa Gate.
The Israeli police claimed at first that the victims were surrounded by a group of Arab men, and one was stabbed in his upper torso and the other was slightly injured, although it is not clear if he was stabbed as well.
Later on the same day, the police said it had arrested three Palestinian suspects, pointing out that the settlers were probably injured during a brawl with Palestinians that turned violent.
The attack comes after an Arab young man said he was assaulted Sunday night by three Jewish men near Pisgat Ze’ev, a settlement in northeastern Jerusalem.
According to Israel's channel 2, a group of Palestinians attacked three settlers after they left a religious school near Jaffa Gate.
The Israeli police claimed at first that the victims were surrounded by a group of Arab men, and one was stabbed in his upper torso and the other was slightly injured, although it is not clear if he was stabbed as well.
Later on the same day, the police said it had arrested three Palestinian suspects, pointing out that the settlers were probably injured during a brawl with Palestinians that turned violent.
The attack comes after an Arab young man said he was assaulted Sunday night by three Jewish men near Pisgat Ze’ev, a settlement in northeastern Jerusalem.