A Palestinian young man was injured on Saturday when a horde ofextremist Jewish settlers attacked a group of Palestinian shepherds andtheir sheep in Humsa al-Fuqa area in the northern Jordan Valley.
According to local sources a local shepherd called Tareq Awawdeh was injured in his head when settlers attacked him and others with rocks and killed one of the sheep in Humsa al-Fuqa.
Two days ago other settlers carried out an attack on shepherds and tents in al-Farisiya hamlet in the Jordan Valley.
Palestinian shepherds in the northern Jordan Valley are exposed almost on a daily basis to harassment and assaults by Jewish settlers who live in illegal outposts and settlements in the region.
