JORDAN: Israeli colonists today attacked Palestinian shepherds east of Khalat Makhol in the northern Jordan Valley while the Israeli police arrested two children, according to Mutaz Bisharat, an official in the Tubas Governorate.

He said that the colonists attacked the shepherds while attempting to reach the pastures to the east of Khalat Makhol and prevented them from reaching that area. Israeli police, meanwhile, arrested two of the shepherd children, Hussein Yousef Bisharat, 16, and Mohammad Yousef Bisharat, 13.

Shepherds are daily subjected to attacks by the colonists and the occupation forces in most areas of the Jordan Valley.
Source: Palestine News and Information Agency – WAFA