An elderly Palestinian man was injured on Wednesday in an Israeli settler attack near Burqa village northwest of Nablus city.
Anti-settlement activist Ghassan Daghlas said that a group of Israeli settlers brutally assaulted Mufid Hejji 70 while he was herding his sheep on his farmland near the evacuated settlement of Homesh which had been established on Palestinian-owned lands in Burqa.
Hejji who suffered some head injuries was taken to Rafidia Hospital in Nablus for treatment Daghlas added.