News Digest: As shepherds watched their flocks by night

They got shot at by settlers. Militant Jewish settlers in Hebron took potshots at unarmed Palestinian shepherds, who they claimed were threatening them. Hebron police investigators had difficulty believing the settlers' story and called the incident an "act of thuggery" intended to intimidate Palestinians...The shepherds were lightly wounded by flying shrapnel and rocks during the shooting and three of them were evacuated to hospital for medical treatment. Fortunately not fatal, but still a far cry from seeing singing angels...