A horde of extremist Jewish settlers on Sunday wreaked havoc on cultivated lands and assaulted a number of Palestinian farmers in the West Bank village of Susya.
Local official Fuaad al-Amour said that a group of settlers who live in a nearby illegal settlement also called Susya stormed swaths of cultivated land in Susya village and let their cattle graze there and destroy the crops.
Amour added that the settlers also brutalized local farmers as they rushed to the area to save their crops from being ruined.
In a separate incident another gang of Jewish settlers physically assaulted an elderly man and his son in the village of Shushahla in the south of al-Khader town (Bethlehem province).
Muhannad Salah a local resident said that he and his elderly father were grazing a herd of cattle in an area of their village when a group of armed settlers from the illegal settlement of Elazar hurled stone at them and tried to force them to leave the area at gunpoint.
Salah added that he and his father stood up for themselves and refused to leave the area pointing out that his family had been exposed to different assaults before at the hands of settlers and soldiers in an attempt to force them to leave their lands.
