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HEBRON, December 30, 2013 (WAFA) - |A group of settlers attacked Palestinians in the South Hebron Hills village of At Tuwani, south of Yatta while they were plowing a field, Monday said a press release by Operation Dove.

Hafez Huraini, a member of the South Hebron Hills Popular Committee (SHHPC), was injured in the attack, it said.

According to Huraini, five settlers, of whom four were children and one an adult, came out from the illegal outpost of Havat Ma'on and attacked four Palestinians who were working their field, which borders the illegal outpost. The adult settler approached Huraini and hit his head with a stone.

Numerous At Tuwani residents subsequently gathered in the field, scaring the settlers' away. However, the settlers continued to throw stones from the Havat Ma'on woods for an additional fifteen minutes, after which they left.

Huraini immediately called the Israeli police to register a complaint about the attack, but the police did not arrive immediately.

The injured went to the hospital in the nearby town of Yatta to be treated.

The village of At-Tuwani is situated in the South Hebron Hills, defined as area C (according to the Oslo accords, area C is part of West Bank under full Israeli civil and security control).

As like many of the Palestinian villages located in area C, At Tuwani suffers from settler and military intimidation and violence. As a result, At Tuwani residents encounter great difficulties in accessing their own lands for their everyday farming activities.

Huraini said: 'This is resistance: to go daily to your land. We are protesting every day, every night.”

Operation Dove has maintained an international presence in At-Tuwani and South Hebron Hills since 2004.

T.R.