NABLUS (Ma'an) -- A group of settlers assaulted three Palestinian farmers in the Nablus village of Aqraba on Monday, a Palestinian Authority official said.

Ghassan Doughlas, who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an that Mahir Hashim Bani Jabir, 25, his brother Omar, 26, and Hafith Nitham Bani Jabir, 26, were attacked by settlers from Itamar while checking olive trees on their land.

All three men required hospital treatment for their injuries, Doughlas said.

Settler violence against Palestinians is systematic in the occupied West Bank but the perpetrators are rarely prosecuted by Israel.