A masked Israeli settler youth threatened and physically assaulted two Italian human rights workers on 5 April as they walked to Tuwani after accompanying Palestinian shepherds near the village of Tuba.  The two members of Operation Dove were walking through an uncultivated Palestinian field near the Israeli settlement of Ma'on and were about fifty meters from Road 317 when a young man approached them.  Although his face was partly covered, they recognised him as the same person who had been verbally harassing the shepherds earlier in the day.  The settler yelled threats at them, ordered them to go back to where they came from, and said he would call police.  When the Italians told him they did not mind if he called the police, he kicked one of them on the thigh and then ran away from them in the direction of Ma'on settlement.