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JERUSALEM (Ma‘an) 18 July -- A group of Israeli settlers attacked three Palestinian shepherds near Jerusalem on Monday, police said. The shepherds were tending to their sheep on a hillside near Mikhmas east of Jerusalem when they came under a "brutal" attack by the ultra-Orthodox settlers who beat and stabbed them, Palestinian police said in a statement. They were evacuated to hospital where medics said two victims sustained serious wounds, police said. The statement did not elaborate on their identities or say at which hospital they received treatment.