An Israeli settler who took part in a brutal attack in which a Palestinian man was stripped naked, had his genitals bound with a zip-tie and was paraded in front of his family has been released from house arrest. The army said that the decision came after the Jerusalem District Court ruled that the location of his house arrest was untenable. Clothes rippedSeveral other residents told Haaretz that the assault lasted about an hour and involved dozens of masked settlers. More than 700,000 Israelis live in illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank and East Jerusalem, according to the International Court of Justice. According to UN data, settler attacks on Palestinian herding communities have increased sharply in recent years with at least 5,910 Palestinians internally displaced due to settler violence between January 2023 and April 2026.