France, Jan. 23 -- Buriel moves slowly because she is in pain. She points to the very large bruise on her back.

"I was beaten by [people who] were probably settlers, who set fire to the place where I was staying and struck us around 20 times with crowbars," she told RFI's correspondent in Jerusalem.

The French researcher, who specialises in education sciences, arrived in Jerusalem around 10 days ago to volunteer with the Israeli non-profitTorat Tzedek.

Set up by Rabbi Arik Ascherman in 2017, the organisation provides what it calls a "protective presence" in Palestinian villages in the West Bank.

Volunteers remain day and night with the most vulnerable Bedouin communities in order to deter attacks by Israeli settlers.

Buriel is no str...