Israeli settlers handcuffed and blindfolded two men in the Masafer Yatta area, south of Hebron, in the southern occupied West Bank, Palestinian news agency Wafa reports citing a local official.

Nidal Yunis, the head of the Masafer Yatta village council said that the settlers were dressed in army clothing and attacked one of the men — Mahmoud Issa Mohammed — while he was herding his sheep.

The settlers then led Mohammed and one other man to a place where they were detained and interrogated, said Yunis according to Wafa.

Another man was reportedly forced to tear down the metal roof of his home in Shaab al-Batam, east of Yatta, before Israelis demolished it.

Israeli settlers also chased Palestinian shepherds grazing their sheep in Wadi al-Jawaya and Khallet al-Adra areas, and attacked sheep in the Khirbet Touba area, Wafa added.

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