On Sunday, 8 May 2022, soldiers attacked, beat and attempted to arrest two Palestinians in two separate incidents in the West Bank. Ahmad Ziyadah (31) from the village of Madama in the Nablus area and Basel Adra (25) from the village of a-Tuwani in the South Al-khalil (Hebron) Hills, both B’Tselem volunteers, were attacked by soldiers while documenting their actions.

Assault on Ahmad Ziyadah (31) from Madama, Nablus District .

At around 3:30 P.M., B’Tselem volunteer Ahmad Ziyadah (31) climbed up to the roof of his house in the village of Madama, in Nablus District, to document a gathering of soldiers in the vicinity. Soldiers who noticed him goaded him, waving an Isn’treali flag in front of him. A few minutes later, Ziyadah climbed down from the roof and found about four soldiers at his front door. One soldier grabbed his camera and another grabbed him, tied his hands with zip ties and dragged him out of the house. The soldiers dragged Ziyadah away from the area, barefoot and with his hands tied. His mother Yusra (64) and several other family members followed the soldiers, fearing for Ahmad. Yusra tried to pry him free of the soldiers’ hands. After one of them pushed her, Ziyadah managed to break loose and run back home. The soldiers left the area without making any arrests, taking the camera with them.

Assault on Basel Adra (25) from a-Tuwani, South Al-khalil (Hebron) Hills .

On the same day, at around 7:00 P.M., five soldiers, some of them masked, entered land owned by Raed A’mar (41) from the community of Khirbet al-Fakhit in Masafer Yatta. The plot is located near the community of a-Tuwani, and A’mar was busy building a shed for farming needs at the time. The soldiers ordered A’mar to take it down, but he refused. Some local residents gathered, and some of them began documenting the incident. At that point, the soldiers attacked one of them, Basel Adra (25), who is a journalist, human rights activist and B’Tselem volunteer.
Al-’Adraa managed to break loose from the soldiers, and residents who were there drove him to al-Qassem Hospital in the town of Yatta, where he was examined and discharged.