Some Israeli settlers today attacked a Palestinian elderly and his son in the village of Shushahla, to the south of the city of Bethlehem in the West Bank.

The son, Muhannad Salah, reported that Israeli settlers from the settlement of Eliazar threw rocks at him and his elderly father while they were grazing livestock, in an attempt to force them out of their land.

Salah added that the residents of the locality were able to fend off the settlers' attack.

He pointed out that Israeli forces and settlers repeatedly target the village aiming to empty it of its few residents for the benefit of the colonial Israeli settlement enterprise.