Alwaght- Residents of Israeli illegal settlements in the occupied West Bank attacked Palestinian farmers and injured three of them on Saturday.
A group of fifteen Israeli settlers from the illegal Talmon settlement surrounded three Palestinians picking olives from trees in the village of al-Janiyah.
They, afterwards, attacked and brutally beat them, the Arabic-language Quds Press new agency reported.
The injured farmers were transported to the Palestine Medical Complex in Ramallah, the Palestine Red Crescent Society (PRCS) later reported.
The agriculture industry, olive cultivation in particular, provides livelihood for some 80,000 Palestinian families living in the occupied West Bank.
Settlers, mostly armed, regularly attack Palestinian villages and farms and set fire to their mosques, olive groves and other properties in the West Bank under the so-called “price tag” policy.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank in 1967. This is while much of the international community considers the settler units illegal and subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied lands.
