A group of 30 settlers attacked a 67-year-old farmer in north Hebron on Saturday, a local committee said, according to Maan Palestinian news agency.

Mohammad Abed al-Hamid Jabir Slaibi, 67, and his sons were working on their land adjacent to Bat Ayin settlement when a group of young settlers started swearing at them and throwing rocks, a popular committee in Beit Ummar told Ma’an. Slaibi and his sons left the area to escape the attack.

An Israeli settler takes photos of activists planting trees in front of a fence that prevents West Bank Palestinians from accessing their lands near Hebron. The fence effectively separates the villagers of Beit Ummar from the nearby Jewish settlement of Karmei Zur, cutting off Palestinian farmers from their agricultural fields (Photo: Activestills)

Israeli soldiers were present at the time of the incident but did not intervene, the committee added. Settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank is routine and rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.