Inhuman Settlers Attack Palestinians In Al Khalil

Rateb Jabour, coordinator of the Popular Committee Against the Wall in in Al Khalil, in the southern part of the occupied West Bank, have reported that Israeli soldiers kidnapped [Monday June 24] two Palestinians near Yatta town, after clashing with settlers who attacked a number of local shepherds.

Jabour said that a number of extremist settlers attacked local shepherds in Ein Al-Baida area, close to Karmiel illegal settlement, and added that the settlers tried to push the Palestinian shepherds out of a gazing area.

He added that dozens of soldiers arrived at the scene, attacked the shepherds, kidnapped two identified as Ahmad Mohammad Abu Hmeid, 18, and Nassar Ali Abu Hmeid, 17, and took them to an unknown destination.

Jabour demanded national and international human rights groups to intervene and stop the ongoing Israeli military escalation, and the escalating violence carried out by extremist Israeli settlers against the Palestinians, their lands and their property.