(Umm-Zeitouna Valley, South Hebron Hills, West Bank)Â 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.