A group of Palestinian farmers harvesting their olive trees on the West Bank were attacked Friday by around 30 settlers, leaving four people with minor injuries, Palestinian officials said, in apparent retaliation for an attack on a settler by Palestinians earlier in the day.
The attack, which comes amid an uptick in settler violence in recent months, began when Israeli settlers descended from a nearby settlement hurling stones and spraying pepper spray at Palestinian olive pickers near the town of Salfit, reported the official Palestinian news agency, Wafa.
Earlier on Friday, eight Palestinians attacked a Jewish settler who was herding his sheep on the southern West Bank Friday, breaking his arm. The shepherd was taken to Soroka Medical Center in Beer Sheva for treatment.
The Israeli military is working to identify the assailants.