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JERUSALEM (Ma'an) -- Two Israelis assaulted Palestinian workers at a gas station in the Jerusalem village of Ein Karem late Sunday, the victims' relatives said.

Mutasem Issam Shweiki, 24, and Shadi al-Mashni were hospitalized following the attack and treated for bleeding from the mouth, nausea, and bruising.

Shweiki's father said Israeli police arrested the suspects and confiscated surveillance cameras at the gas station.

Ein Karem, believed to be the birthplace of John the Baptist, was a vibrant mixed community of Palestinian Muslims, Christians, and Jews before the majority were forced to flee amid an attack by Jewish militias in 1948.