BETHLEHEM, Wednesday, June 21, 2023 (WAFA) - A settler today forced at gunpoint shepherds in the village of Kisan, east of Bethlehem, to leave the pastures and prevented them from grazing their sheep, according to the head of the Kisan village council, Musa Abiyat.

He told WAFA that a settler was grazing his sheep on private land planted with olive trees not more than 100 meters from homes in the village and adjacent to the illegal settlement of Ibi Hanahel, built on village lands.

Settlers, under army protection, regularly attack the shepherds in Kisan and prevent them from grazing their sheep, while assaulting them and their sheep, shooting them, holding them and their sheep, and imposing fines against them, in addition to physically assaulting them causing injury, bruises and wounds to some.

M.K.