A PALESTINIAN teenager was assaulted and left for dead by a group of 20 Israeli settlers who launched an unprovoked attack against him and his cousin on Wednesday.

Speaking from his hospital bed in the West Bank city of Nablus yesterday, 16-year-old Osama Daghlas told the Palestinian Wafa news agency that he and Salah had been playing in fields near their home village of Burqa when a group of adult settlers accosted them.

They fled, but the Israelis caught Osama while Salah escaped.
“The settlers first threw rocks at me and one hit me in the head and I fell to ground unconscious,” he said.