Saber Shtaya, a 73-year-old Palestinian farmer who was attacked in his olive orchard in April, returned from an Israeli hospital to his West Bank village of Salem over the weekend.
Shtaya was still having a hard time walking normally, even though he has been undergoing rehabilitation for the past month, his son Rami said.
Immediately after the attack, Shtaya was taken to Beilinson Hospital in Petah Tikva, where he was classified as being in very serious condition and lay unconscious for nearly three weeks.
The attack on Shtaya came during settler harassment aimed at keeping Palestinians from working their land, according to Palestinian farmers and Israeli volunteers who are assisting them.
Since an olive orchard was destroyed near Salem in November, Israeli volunteers have arrived every weekend to help the farmers and intervene in clashes with settlers from the nearby Elon Moreh settlement and Skali's Farm outpost.
However, the presence of the volunteers has not always kept the harassment at bay. Sometimes, they said, armed settlers would stand near the orchards 'just to generate fear among the farmers.'
Kibbutz Movement official Yoel Marshak has asked police to investigate the legality of Skali's Farm.