For the second consecutive day a horde of Jewish settlers attacked on Tuesday morning Palestinian shepherds in Khallet Makhoul area in the northern Jordan Valley.
Local official Aref Daraghmeh said that settlers started during the morning hours to chase and brutalize a number of shepherds as they were grazing their cattle in the east of Khallet Makhoul area.
Daraghmeh added that the same settlers attacked a shepherd with pepper spray on Monday and forced him and other sheepherders to leave the area.
Palestinian villagers in the northern Jordan Valley are exposed to daily attacks by Jewish settlers and soldiers who aim to force the local residents to leave the region.
In a separate incident another group of settlers today afternoon set fire to swaths of land in the towns of Qusra and Jorish south of Nablus.
Eyewitnesses said that settlers from the illegal settlement of Shvut Rachel set alight a vast tract of land near olive groves in Qusra and Jorish.
Local farmers expressed their fear that the flames could reach their olive groves and burn the trees which they intend to harvest soon during the olive picking season.
