HEBRON, Saturday, February 06, 2021 (WAFA) - Hardcore Israeli settlers assaulted Palestinian herders today while they were grazing their sheep in the village of Al-Tuwana, near the town of Yatta in the occupied West Bank district of Hebron, according to witnesses.

Fo'ad Emour, a local official in charge of monitoring attacks in the area by colonial Israeli settlers, told WAFA that a group of hardcore Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement of Havat Maon assaulted herders and their sheep with stones and physically assaulted them.

The settlers also forced the herders out of pasture land where they were grazing livestock.

The village is part of Masafer Yatta, a collection of about 19 nomadic Bedouin hamlets that rely heavily on livestock husbandry as a main source of living.

Settler attacks against Palestinians in the area is commonplace, and often occur in the presence of the Israeli occupation military.

Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is commonplace in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli occupation authorities.

Over 700,000 Israeli settlers live in Jewish-only colonial settlements across the West Bank in violation of international law, particularly the Fourth Geneva Convention which expressly bans the relocation of the occupying nation's civilian population to the land of the occupied.

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