On 14 August 2021, at around 4:00 P.M., about 10 Palestinian children between the ages of 6 and 12 came to the home of Jihad and Jamal a-Najar in the Wadi al-Hussein neighborhood in central Hebron, seeking refuge from a settler who was chasing them. A fence separates the neighborhood from the adjacent settlement of Kiryat Arba. The couple took the children inside and Jamal stopped the settler from coming in after them. After trying to enter other homes and threatening the couple with a stone, the settler left and headed towards Kiryat Arba. A few minutes later, he returned with three other settlers. One of them pushed Jihad, who had come outside to film what was happening, hit the camera she was holding and punched her in the chest.
Soldiers who came to the scene ignored Jihad’s report she had been attacked and tried to break into the house in search of the children. After Jihad felt chest pain and had difficulty breathing, her husband called a Red Crescent ambulance that took her to ‘Alia hospital in Hebron. The soldiers and settlers left the scene, and Jihad was examined at the hospital and discharged several hours later.