Video: Israeli settlers attack Palestinian farmers marking the beginning of olive harvesting season

Israeli settlers attacked a group of Palestinians as they picked olives in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron on Friday.

Settlers from the illegal settlement of Maon - built close-by to Yatta town - attacked farmers while they were harvesting their olives in the Masafer Yatta area, according to Palestinian Authority (PA) official news agency Wafa News.

One of the farmers was a woman and all of the workers suffered injuries.

Attack on Palestinian farmers have been frequent over the past few weeks as the olive harvesting season begins. 

On Thursday, a similar incident took place in the occupied West Bank city of Nablus.

Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank told Palestine based Maan News Agency that Israeli settlers from the Itamar settlement had attacked Palestinians picking olives close to Deir al-Hatab village.

Daghlas added that Israeli settlers beat the Palestinian workers by throwing rocks and sharp objects at them as they were farming.

Video footage shows settlers attacking the Palestinian farmers with an Israeli soldier watching nearby.