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AT-TUWANI RELEASE: Masked settlers attack three Palestinian women in the South Hebron Hills

(Umm-Zeitouna Valley, South Hebron Hills, West Bank)  On Friday 10 April at about 10:00 a.m. five Israeli settlers attacked three Palestinian women from the Bedouin village of Umm Al Kher, south of Yatta, while the women were grazing their sheep and gathering herbs in the nearby Umm Zeituna valley.  The women reported that the men were masked and armed with wooden sticks.  They beat one of the women, aged 21, injuring her arm, and chased the women and flocks off the land while throwing rocks.  The injured woman needed to be hospitalized.