HEBRON, December 30, 2024 (WAFA) - Extremist colonists abducted on Monday night a Palestinian man from the town of Ash Shuyukh, east of Hebron, and violently assaulted him before abandoning him near an Israeli military checkpoint.

The victim, Ashraf Al-Halaika, reported that a group of colonists from the "Asfar" colony, built illegally on the town's land, raided a quarry in the al-Zafaran area, where they detained the workers and searched their cell phones before abducting one of the workers who was identified as 48-year-old  Diyab Nemer Odeh Al-Halaika.

The colonists took al-Halaika to the said colony, where they severely beat him up, in the presence and with help of Israeli soldiers.

Al-Halaika added that the colonists left him at a military checkpoint east of the city, suffering from bruises and various wounds throughout his body. He was later transported by ambulance to the Hebron Government Hospital for treatment.

T.R.