Ammon News - A Palestinian farmer was in a critical condition Monday after Jewish settlers shot and injured him in the head in the occupied West Bank, according to a Palestinian official.

Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors settlement activity in the northern West Bank, said that the man, a farmer from a village near Nablus, was wounded when extremists from a nearby Jewish settlement attacked farmers grazing their livestock.

The man was rushed to hospital where he was reported in a critical condition.