JERUSALEM, Sunday, February 28, 2021 (WAFA) – A seventeen-year-old Palestinian minor sustained today evening a critical facial injury after being attacked by Israeli settlers in the occupied East Jerusalem area, local sources confirmed.

Sources told WAFA a group of extremist settlers attacked with stones Palestinian youth in the East Jerusalem neighborhood of the French Hill, critically injuring Mohammad Abu al-Hummos, from Jerusalem’s al-Issawiya town, in the face.

Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.

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