Israeli forces Thursday severely beat up a 17-year-old Palestinian shepherd in an area east of the Town of Yatta, south of Hebron, as well as brutally raided several houses in the area, according to a local activist. The Popular Committee Coordinator in Yatta, Rateb al-Jabour, said that soldiers severely beat up Jaafar al-Jabareen, 17, causing him severe bruises and injuries throughout his body. Forces also raided several houses in the area, broke down doors, mixed food items together in a vengeance way and tampered with the houses’ contents. Residents in the eastern part of Yatta suffer from the ill-treatment of Israeli forces, in addition to settler’s daily ongoing attacks against them in an attempt to force them to leave their land for the benefit of settlement expansion.