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A group of masked Israeli colony dwellers beat and injured four Palestinian farmers tending to their field in the West Bank<\/st1:place> on Tuesday, Palestinian officials reported. <\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/font><\/font><\/p>\r\n

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<\/span><\/span>''They parked on the road and we thought they were just hiking but suddenly they put on masks and they sprayed me in my eyes and beat me and I couldn't see who it was,'' said farmer Hussein Asida, 46. <\/font><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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<\/span><\/span>50-year-old Hashem Hamed, who was working alongside Asida in the field, was moderately injured and evacuated to the nearby hospital in Nablus<\/st1:place><\/st1:city> with a broken arm and badly injured pelvis. Hospital officials told he also sustained a serious head injury and required eight stitches. <\/font><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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<\/span><\/span>"They kept beating his head and body with a stick and also kicked him with their legs," Hamed's brother said from the hospital in Nablus<\/st1:place><\/st1:city>. "The settlers from Havat Gilad have made our lives impossible. Most of their attacks are completely ignored by Zionist regime's army forces. Luckily, the olive harvest this year was brief, because usually this time of year is hell for us. The settlers beat us, tear down the trees and steal the olives," he said. <\/font><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>\r\n

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The settlers sprayed four Palestinians who were planting wheat with pepper gas and then beat them with sticks, witnesses said, among the Palestinians was a 15-year-old youth.<\/font><\/span><\/o:p><\/span><\/p>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2007-12-25 18:15:00","content_date_finish":"2007-12-25 18:15:00","content_date_register":"2007-12-25 18:15:00","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"100632","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":null,"attach_date_register":null,"attach_id":null,"attach_file_ext":null,"attach_file_header":null,"attach_img_type":null,"attach_img_width":null,"attach_img_height":null,"attach_file_media":null,"attach_show_watermark":null,"score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"278","visit_date_last":"2025-05-10 20:36:26","attach_title":null,"node_title":"Latest news","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":144, \"left\":49, \"right\":50}]"}]]