Salfit – Ma’an – Settlers attacked a shepherd on Saturday while he was grazing his sheep in the “Al-Shafit” area in the Ad-Duhur area, north of the town of Deir Istiya, northwest of Salfit, and threatened him with weapons.

Anti-settlement activist Nazmi Salman said: Four armed settlers attacked citizen Ghassan Salman, 28 years old, while he was grazing his sheep in the pastoral land in the Ad-Duhur area, and they assaulted him by beating him and spraying pepper gas in his eyes.

He added that the settlers threatened Salman with weapons to make him leave the pasture and tried to steal his sheep.

In turn, the mayor of Deir Istiya, Firas Diab, pointed out that the Salman family, which has been working in livestock breeding for years, is constantly exposed to attacks by settlers residing in the outpost they established in the Ad-Duhur area months ago, stressing that the settlers’ attacks have been repeated, especially in recent days, on shepherds in the Salfit Governorate.

Source: Maan News Agency