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Jerusalem – A Jewish settler assaulted a 30-year-old Jerusalemite
woman and her daughter in front of their Old City home in the Aqbat
Al-Khaledia neighborhood on Thursday night, the family reported.

Abu Ammar Abu Asab told Ma’an that his wife and two of his daughters
were on their way home when a Jewish man, identified by Abu Asab as a
settler, hit his youngest daughter Hazar, 10, and fled the scene.

“This is not the first time it has happened,” the father noted,
explaining that he “did not bother calling the police, since whenever
there is an attack they arrest my family and not the settlers.”

A similar incident was reported in the East Jerusalem neighborhood
of Sheikh Jarrah on Thursday evening, when two children playing in the
street were reportedly slapped by an Israeli settler squatting in one of
the area’s homes.

The Al-Ghawi family said police arrived at the scene, took
statements but did not make any arrests, then demanded that the boy’s
father accompany officers to the police station for hours.

Israeli police representatives were not immediately available by
phone Thursday night for comment.