Cigarette burns, beatings, attempted sexual assault: Settlers and soldiers abused Palestinians (original) (raw)

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![אלימות מתנחלים אבו חסן](https://img.haarets.co.il/bs/0000018b-530f-d1d7-ab8b-7f5fc99e0000/dd/da/baa62ec049a6ab80bfa0a5241078/54060727.JPG?precrop=1014,1193,x206,y0&width=620&height=729&cmsprod "Palestinians assaulted by members of the "Sfar Hamidbar" unit in Wadi as-Seeq, in October. The image was disseminated on social media.")

Palestinians assaulted by members of the "Sfar Hamidbar" unit in Wadi as-Seeq, in October. The image was disseminated on social media.

A week after being assaulted in Wadi as-Seeq, Palestinians and Israeli activists struggle to recover – and accuse an army unit of ‘hilltop youth’ and settlers. The army has removed the commanding officer of the unit and opened an investigation

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The abuse lasted almost a whole day. Soldiers and settlers detained and handcuffed three Palestinians from the West Bank village Wadi as-Seeq, and for hours, according to the Palestinians, they were severely beaten, stripped to their underwear, and photographed handcuffed, in their underwear. Their captors urinated on two of them and extinguished burning cigarettes on them. There was even an attempt to penetrate one of them with an object.