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The baby that was hit by the stone in the attack in Hebron, November 23, 2019. Credit: Shihab News Agency on Facebook Published by Haaretz

Israeli security forces guard a group of Ultra Orthodox Jews on their way to visit the tomb of Othniel Ben Kenaz in an Arab neighborhood of the divided West Bank city of Hebron on November 23, 2019. Credit: AFP Published by Haaretz
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Via Human Rights Defenders تجمع المدافعين عن حقوق الانسان in Hebron, Nov 23:

Mohammed Tannina 1 year old, grandson of activist Imad Abu Shamsya, was injured in the head as a result of hundreds of settlers throwing stones and empty bottles at the home of the Imad Abu Shamsya.
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Five Palestinians Wounded After Israeli Settlers Attack in Hebron, Red Crescent Reports

Clashes today are a continuation of Friday night's events in Hebron where according to local reports, 12 wounded were evacuated to hospitals as a result of settler aggression

by Jack Khoury for Haaretz
Nov 23, 2019 6:58 PM

The Palestinian Red Crescent reported that it treated five people, including a baby, who were wounded in an attack by Israeli settlers in the West Bank city of Hebron on Saturday.

The attack was reportedly perpetrated by dozens of settlers, who hurled stones at several houses. The wounded were evacuated to a city hospital, the Red Crescent stated.

Sources in Hebron reported that in addition to the wounded, businesses and commercial stores were attacked in the northern entrance to the Old City.

Imad Abu Shamsiyya, a 49-year-old Palestinian photographer and activist from the Tel Rumeida neighborhood in Hebron, said his 18-month-old grandson was injured as a result of a stone thrown at his home's window. "I heard settlers approaching and locked the house out of fear of them coming in," he said. "Then I heard the boy scream and saw he was injured in his head." His grandson was sent to Hebron Hospital in stable condition, Abu Shamsiyya said.

Friday night in the city, 12 wounded Palestinians were evacuated to hospitals as a result of another attack by settlers, Palestinian media reported.

There has been a recent escalation in settler aggression in the area. Palestinian vehicles were set ablaze and hateful graffiti was scrawled in a suspected hate crime in four West Bank Palestinian villages overnight on Thursday.

According to Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem, there have been 13 incidents of slashed tires and hateful graffiti in Palestinian villages in the West Bank in October and November.

Earlier this month, 120 olive trees were heavily damaged in the West Bank in three separate incidents. Branches were sawed off the trees in the fields of the Palestinian villages of As-Sawiya, near Nablus, close to the settlement of Rehelim, and near Yasuf, which is in the Salfit area, close to the settlement of Tapuach.

Last month Jewish settlers assaulted Palestinian farmers, wounding three, at an olive grove near the village of Burin in the West Bank, according to witnesses and the Red Crescent. Witnesses said the settlers attacked the farmers while they were harvesting olives, and also damaged the grove.