12 “Israeli” Settlerd on One 67-Year Old Shepherd!

Local Editor

Settler attacks on Palestinians have been on the rise in the northern West Bank.
An elderly 67 year old Palestinian Shepherd, Hamad al-Kett, was admitted to the hospital on Friday with a fractured skull, internal bleeding, and bruising throughout his body, after he was attacked and beaten by a group of 12 "Israeli" settlers south of Nablus.

The incident took place in Madama village, near the city of Nablus in the northern West Bank. According to eyewitnesses, the settlers came by foot from the nearby settlement of Yitzhar, a small outpost established by extreme right-wing Israeli settlers in the middle of several Palestinian populated areas and far east of the 1967 armistice line between Israel and Palestine.
Al-Kett was found by relatives and taken to the hospital in Nablus, where he remains in critical condition, reported the IMEMC.

According to the acting charmain of the Madama Village Council, Eyhab al-Kett, "Hamad was herding his sheep in the southern region of the village, when he was attacked by settlers who tried to take the sheep from him. The old man tried to resist them, so they took advantage of the fact that he was alone and old and brutally assaulted him."

Over 400,000 "Israeli" settlers live in the West Bank and East Al Quds (Jerusalem) in violation of international law. Most moved there within the last fifteen years, after the Oslo Agreement was signed between "Israel" and the Palestinian Authority, which forbade such transfer of civilian populations onto land acquired by the use of military force.