"Today, settlers carried out a pogrom in Masafer Yatta, and then presented a false narrative that was adopted by (most) journalists in the country. Watch the video: Hilltop youth, masked, beat a 17-year-old boy, Kossai, with clubs, while his mother, Ala, screams in fear in the background. Turn on the sound. And here is the full story >>"

On March 28,

In the Morning, dozens of masked settlers invaded and terrorized shepherds community in the village of Khirbet Jinba, located in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron.

• The events of the Morning were captured in security footage taken from a different camera at the house.

• Video Documentation of the first moments of the settlers' invasion of the village of Jinba shows dozens of masked settlers armed with clubs and rifles lift stones and run towards the village homes.

• According to AP, the matriarch of the Al-Amur family, Oula Awad, said she saw the settlers approaching her house between 8:00 AM and 9:00 AM, as she was doing laundry outside with her daughter. Her son, Qusai, 17, and husband, Aziz, 63, were washing up to prepare for Ramadan prayers when the settlers pulled up in vehicles and emerged. The settler runs toward her and told her, ‘Don’t wave. Do not move forward. We will hit you,". She and her daughter, 16-year-old Handa, are seen screaming and waving clothes in the air, calling for help.

• The settlers are then seen converging on Qusai. One settler begins hitting him with a stick as he tries to run away. Another settler smashes his head with a rock, sending him to the ground. Four settlers then kick and beat him before running away.

• Then the settlers locked Oula Awad and her daughter in a side room as they beat her younger son, Ahmad, and her husband Aziz who sustained injuries and fractures : “They entered the room and hit the windows,” said Awad. They tried to burn the furniture. “My husband was standing on the stairs, and they started beating him.” A video taken by Qusai and shared by Basel Adra showed Ahmad on the ground with a head laceration. Aziz lies nearby, his face bloodied.

• Osama Makhama, a local activist, reported that armed Israeli settler assaulted Maher Ahmad Muhammad and his son, Osama, while they were tending to their livestock. The settler beat them, causing bruises and injuries.

• Another 70-year-old man was also injured in the attack. The victims were rushed to hospital for medical treatment.

• The Palestinian Red Crescent Society reported that four civilians were acutely beaten and injured by Israeli settlers while tending to their livestock. Five village residents are hospitalized : Aziz had a chest injury and underwent surgery for skull fractures. Ahmed, 16, is in intensive care. Qusai suffered a broken arm, bruises and cuts. Another villager, Maher Mohammed, had cuts and bruises, as did his son Osama, who was also undergoing kidney examinations.

• Shortly after the attack, Israeli occupation forces raided the village, searched homes, and destroyed belongings inside several residences. More than 20 detainees were taken by soldiers, all of them residents who were attacked.

• According to AP, Nidal Younis, the head of the Masafer Yatta village council, witnessed part of the attack and was detained by police for two hours afterward. He said soldiers who arrived on scene following the attack prevented Palestinians from nearby villages from helping and threw stun grenades at homes, a claim to which the military did not respond.

Context

This assault is part of a broader pattern of terror attacks by Israeli colonists against Palestinian shepherds and property in the villages and hamlets of Masafer Yatta, with the backing of the Israeli military. These attacks aim to forcibly displace the local population to expand Israeli colonial settlements in the area. The village of Jinba, located in the Masafer Yatta area of southern Hebron, has been under military siege dor years and months. This blockade restricts residents' freedom of movement and prevents visitors, including relatives, lawyers, and medical teams, from entering.

A Settler strategy to harass the Palestinian resident :

In this "testimony" of to one of the Jewish perpetrators, אלישע ירד @ElishaYered, a violent settler "hilltop boy" militan, from Ramat Migron, after being expelsed from Shanur settelment in the nothern part of West Bank, the attack was justified as a defense, while their settlement is illegal

"A Jewish shepherd was attacked a short while ago near the settlement of Mitzpe Yair in the Hebron Hills. Terrorists from the village of Jinba assaulted the shepherd with clubs while he was with his flock in the grazing areas and injured him. The wounded shepherd was evacuated to Soroka Hospital for medical treatment. Residents and military forces who were called to the scene pushed the attackers back to the village. The military forces are currently continuing to search for the assailants."

Among the injured were Aziz al-Amour and his son, Ahmad, who sustained injuries and fractures

The statement of Israeli Police

Israeli police states they detained 22 Palestinians from the village on suspicion of "stone throwing" and brought them in for further investigation. They claimed Palestinians had attacked two settler shepherds nearby, minorly injuring them.

“The security forces view the series of attacks in the area seriously, and will take strong action to bring those involved to justice,” the police said. They did not respond when asked by the AP why no Israeli civilians were arrested.

Statement of IDF

The military stated that an Israeli civilian had been attacked and injured by militants near an Israeli settlement. Then, it said “a violent confrontation developed between a number of Israeli civilians and Palestinians,” injuring another Israeli civilian.

Palestinian Qusai Al-Amur sits in a hospital bed next to his relatives following an attack by Israeli settlers on his West Bank village of Jinba, Friday, March 28, 2025. (Basel Adra via AP)

On March 29

• During the night, 15 of the 22 detainees were released. Seven are still being held.

• At the same time, the army returned and invaded Jinaba to finish breaking and destroying what the settlers had failed to do., around 2 a.m.. Then, the soldiers, present for more than seven hours, spilled the residents' food, emptied the cupboards, tore off the window bars, and arrested at least one resident. (According to @mistaclim)

-According to Nir Hasson, they were 140 settler soldiers. "They entered all the houses, woke up all the residents, including women and children, and then began to destroy. According to the residents' testimonies, they destroyed all their property, spilled all the food, uprooted taps, and destroyed everything that could be destroyed for 4 hours. Each group of soldiers was equipped with a 5-kg hammer."

• According to Muhammad Hureini and Basel Adra, "they destroyed the school's furniture,windows,solar panels that supply the school with electricity, and cameras that documented the pogrom carried out by settlers yesterday. Moving from house to house,destroying everything"

• According to Sarit Michaeli (@saritm0) from B'tselem,

EU Representative visited Oscar-winning co-director of “No Other Land” Hamdan Ballal in his home in Susiya (a village in the same area of Masafer Yatta) as he recovers from settler violence & arrest by Israeli forces. "Since this welcome visit yesterday, settlers and the army destroyed an entire community, Khirbet Jinba, including an EU funded school and clinic."

The spokesperson for the IDF responded:

"During the night, IDF forces operated in the village of Jinaba as part of a planned operation aimed at locating weapons. The allegation that the forces violated procedures during the searches is under investigation by the brigade commander."

**On March 31 **

Local activist Mohammad Huraini shared pictures of Aziz 64 Y.O and his son 15 Y.O, severly injured on their head "they are suffering from their injuries and still getting treatment in the hospital. Meanwhile the settlers who attacked them are enjoying their freedom, and 7 Palestinians still arrested since the day of the attack from the village"

April 1, 2025

• The Ofer military court ordered today (Tuesday April 1) the release of the seven Palestinians who were arrested on Friday in the village of Jinaba, suspected of throwing stones at settlers.

• The judge stated in his decision that the evidence indicates the violence began as a result of a planned attack by settlers, who arrived in several armed vehicles at the village and attacked Palestinians in their homes.

• The judge added that there is a real possibility that the arrested Palestinians threw stones at the settlers in self-defense.

• Meanwhile, the Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court extended until Thursday the detention of a Jewish suspect arrested on suspicion of attacking Palestinians during the incident, and the police arrested another Jewish suspect today. Three settlers were arrested in connection with the attack on Palestinians. One, a minor, was released to house arrest due to his age and circumstances, while two remain in custody. The court highlighted that Israeli suspects provided evasive answers, with some refusing to answer questions.

• Palestinians: The Ofer Military Court ordered the release of seven Palestinians suspected of throwing stones at settlers in Jinba. The judge ruled they may have acted in self-defense and noted inconsistencies in the settlers' accounts. Initially, 22 Palestinians were arrested; 15 were released earlier, and the remaining seven were freed with conditions, including a cash deposit and a contact ban.

• Israeli Military Action: Later the same day, IDF soldiers, alongside settlers, raided Jinba, destroying homes. The Israeli army disciplined its personnel, detaining a commander and two soldiers for seven days, dismissing an officer, and issuing a reprimand to a brigade commander. The IDF acknowledged unauthorized searches and vandalism during the raid.