A Palestinian shepherd was injured on Wednesday after he was attacked by Israeli settlers in Yatta town in the West Bank district of al-Khalil.
Local sources reported that a group of Israeli settlers stormed Palestinian farmlands in the eastern area of Yatta while escorted by Israeli forces and assaulted Palestinian shepherds injuring one of them.
Israeli settlers of Ma’on settlement which was built by force on Palestinian lands in Yatta in 1981 on a regular basis attack Palestinian farmers and shepherds while Israeli forces target their homes and facilities with arbitrary demolitions to force them to leave the area.
