The small hospital room in the Palestinian city of Yatta in the occupied West Bank is crammed with visitors. Their voices are hushed, their quiet presence the main source of comfort.

Khader Nawaj’ah lies on his side, his face bruised and swollen and his left hand in a cast. A sheet hangs between him and the bed his wife, Fatima, is on, her broken arm in a sling.

The Nawaj’ahs say they were sleeping outside their home in the Palestinian village of Khirbet Susiya in the South Hebron Hills to find some respite from the heat. They woke to the sound of their own screams as Israeli settlers from a nearby outpost attacked them.

“Settlers were surrounding me from the moment I woke up, and they were hitting me with stones, not just little stones, big stones,” Nawaj’ah told the fifth estate co-host Ioanna Roumeliotis from his hospital bed.

“I'm 56 years old, and I wouldn’t be able to lift or carry it with one hand. and I'd never been hit with such big stones. Then they started hitting me with sticks.”

The Nawaj’ahs were just the latest victims of settler attacks to come through this hospital, said Dr. Tareq Abu Aram, who often treats victims.

“Many times, sometimes daily, at this time, two days weekly, at least.”

Since May 2024, the Canadian government has sanctioned 17 individuals and seven entities for perpetrating “extremist settler violence against civilians” in the West Bank. Canada has said the ongoing violence “has undermined the human rights of Palestinians, prospects for a two-state solution and posed significant risks to regional security.”

WATCH | Treating the victims of settler violence: After the attacks | Duration 2:43 In the West Bank city of Yatta, Dr. Tareq Abu Aram describes how often he treats victims of Israeli settler violence to the fifth estate’s Ioanna Roumeliotis, who visited Yatta hospital in August and spoke with Palestinians who were injured.

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