Prosecutors indicted a 24-year-old Israeli settler on terror charges Thursday after he was filmed allegedly beating a Palestinian woman unconscious with a club as she tried to harvest olives near the West Bank village of Turmus Ayya last month.

The defendant, Ariel Dahari, resides in the Oz Yair illegal outpost northeast of Ramallah. He is accused of joining other Jewish masked extremists in rampaging through the area, assaulting olive harvesters and damaging a vehicle at the scene.

The assault sparked outrage in Israel and abroad after Dahari was filmed allegedly beating 52-year-old Afaf Abu ‘Olia with a club, knocking her out and inflicting a severe head injury. She was hospitalized for a week as a result of the beating.

According to prosecutors, Dahari began his rampage by assaulting a village resident who had tried to escape him by car, forcing open the vehicle’s door, pulling him out, and chasing him down a hill while pelting him with stones.

Then he later allegedly attacked Abu ‘Olia.

A video shot by US-based writer Jasper Nathaniel showed a masked individual sporting tzitzit (a Jewish ritual garment) running up to Abu ‘Olia, from al-Mughayyir, and bludgeoning her head with a club.

A masked Israeli settler armed with a club viciously attacked an elderly Palestinian woman while she was peacefully picking olives on her own land in Turmus Ayya, near Ramallah. He beat her until she collapsed unconscious. pic.twitter.com/FI1bGl6dvM

— Daniel Zahoor (@DanielZahoor) October 19, 2025

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