Palestinian Authority Arabs on Monday morning attacked a Jewish shepherd, causing a head injury.
The attack, which took place in the Mu'arrajat area near Mevo'ot Yericho as the Jewish shepherd tended his flock, left the shepherd with a light injury to his head.
During the attack, the Arabs surrounded their Jewish victim, beat him with clubs, and stole his cellular phone. The shepherd succeeded in pressing a special distress button purchased for such incidents, alerting the owner of the farm and other shepherds, who arrived at the scene together with security forces.
Security forces arriving at the scene provided the victim with medical treatment at the scene, and Magen David Adom (MDA) evacuated the victim to Hadassah Ein Kerem Medical Center in Jerusalem.
The attackers escaped to a Bedouin encampment nearby, and police later arrested two of the suspects in the attack.
Zohar Sabbah, the owner of the farm, related: "The shepherd called me and I didn't manage to hear anything other than screams and roars. I understood immediately that something bad was happening, and a moment afterwards I received an alert from the distress button, which at the same time alerted the security hotline. We immediately rushed to the scene and the attackers escaped. This was a planned lynch. We were a moment away from having this incident become Binyamin Achimeir 2, G-d forbid. If we had arrived a moment later, it could all have ended differently."
The IDF responded: "Earlier on Monday, a report was received regarding an Israeli civilian who was attacked by a number of Palestinians in the area of Mevo'ot Yericho, and as a result suffered an injury to his head."
"A short time later, a number of Israeli civilians arrived at the location where the suspects had fled to and hidden. A clash broke out at the scene, during which a number of Palestinians were injured.
"Upon receiving the report, IDF force and police were called to the site, handled the clash, and arrested a number of suspects at the scene."
In April, 14-year-old Binyamin Achimeir went missing in the area of Malachei Hashalom. His body was found the next day, murdered in a terrorist attack.
Camera footage showing the terrorist who murdered Binyamin Achimeir at the gate to the Malachei Hashalom farm where Achimeir worked, still holding a knife.
The footage was shown during a special meeting aimed at investigating a series of failures surrounding the murder and the search for Achimeir's body. Taken three-and-a-half hours after the murder, it shows the terrorist pacing at the farm gate before abruptly leaving the area.