WEST BANK, (Palestine Foundation Information Center) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers attacked on Monday morning Palestinian areas in the northern Jordan Valley and Jericho, south of the occupied West Bank.
According to local sources, armed settlers forced Palestinian shepherds to leave pastoral lands in the Hamma area of the northern Jordan Valley and chased them into their nearby hamlet.
For long months, the entire northern Jordan Valley area has been seeing a sharp rise in settler violations and crimes against Palestinian villagers and their property.
Over 25 local families had to leave their communities in different areas of the northern Jordan Valley in the past months following a wave of aggressive practices by settlers and soldiers.
Meanwhile, another group of settlers released their sheep into the village of Shallal al-Auja in northern Jericho as part of their near-daily provocations in the area.
In a separate incident, a horde of settlers established a new illegal outpost on a swath of land they annexed from Attara town, northwest of Ramallah.
According to local sources, dozens of settlers with a bulldozer stormed the Jabel al-Khirba area of the town, where they embarked on building a road and pitching tents.
