A horde of extremist Jewish settlers on Monday attacked Palestinian farmers as they were collecting olives from their grove in southern Nablus north of the occupied West Bank.
According to local sources settlers from the illegal settlement of Itamar assaulted olive pickers in a grove near the road between the towns of Aqraba and Yanun.
The road has been closed to Palestinian citizens by the Israeli occupation army for over 20 days.
Eyewitnesses said that the settlers escorted by soldiers attacked the farmers with pepper spray and injured some of them.
Under military protection the settlers also embarked on stealing olives from the grove following their attack on the farmers.
