The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) on Thursday morning physically assaulted a Palestinian elderly man as he was picking olives in Beit Ummar town north of al-Khalil.
Local media activist Mohamed Awad said that Israeli soldiers brutalized and severely beat 77-year-old Mohamed al-Salibi as he was collecting olives from his grove in an area near the illegal settlement of Bat Ayin which was built on lands annexed from Beit Ummar town.
Awad explained that the soldiers harassed Salibi and ordered him to leave his own grove but after he refused to comply they embarked on attacking him with their rifle butts and forced him to leave the area at gunpoint.
