JORDAN VALLEY, Sunday, February 19, 2023 (WAFA) – Colonial Israeli settlers today attacked Palestinian herders in the northern Jordan Valley in the occupied West Bank, said Aref Daraghmeh, an official in charge of monitoring the Israeli settlement file in the area.
He said a group of settlers assaulted Palestinian herders while grazing their sheep near Khirbet Makhoul village and forced them to leave, adding that Israeli soldiers who were present at the scene did not intervene to stop the attack.
Attacks by Israeli settlers on Palestinians are commonplace, but attacks on farmers and herders are particularly higher in the Jordan Valley area.
Armed settlers and soldiers often prevent Palestinian shepherds from herding in the open pastures of the occupied West Bank in order to force them to abandon the area.
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