London, December 25, 2011
Jewish settlers detained a Palestinian shepherd for three hours under gunpoint in the northern Jordan Valley and warned has his sheep to graze in the area.
Local sources said that the settlers ambushed the shepherd, Mohammed Awad, while rearing his sheep in Wadi al- Maleh in the northern Jordan Valley.
They said that the settlers were escorted by Israeli occupation forces who also threatened the shepherd and told him not to graze in the mountains near the settlement of Maskiot.
Meanwhile, Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activity in northern West Bank areas, said that Jewish settlers threatened to kill him during a demonstration for them on Friday.
He told Quds Press that the settlers hoisted photos of him while threatening to liquidate him at the Beit Leed roadblock between Tulkarem and Nablus.
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