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HEBRON (Ma'an) -- Four Israeli settlers from Bet Ayn in the Hebron area assaulted Palestinian farmers while they were working on their land in Beit Ummar Saturday morning, an activist said.

Muhammad Ayyad Awad, coordinator of a local popular committee in Beit Ummar, said that Israeli settlers threw stones at farmer Muhammad Abd al-Hamid Jaber al-Sleibi and his two sons in the Wadi Abu al-Rish area near Beit Ayn.

Awad added that four masked Israeli settlers dressed in white threw rocks using slingshots at the farmers from behind barbed wire fences forcing them to flee the area.

The farmers reported the incident to the Palestinian liaison office, he said.