Four foreign activists were arrested by Israeli security forces over the weekend on suspicion of assaulting a Jewish shepherd outside the Palestinian village of Al-Mughayyir, near Ramallah in Samaria.

The suspects were detained as part of a joint operation involving the Judea and Samaria Police District, the Israel Defense Forces and the Population and Immigration Authority, police said.

Police received a report over the weekend that a shepherd had been attacked in an “approved grazing area” near Al-Mughayyir. Officers, including border police, and soldiers were dispatched to the scene, where they arrested the suspects and restored order, the police statement said.