Jewish settlers displace West Bank family, torch its property

WEST BANK, (Palestine Foundation Information Center) A horde of extremist Jewish settlers assaulted on Sunday a Palestinian family and forced it to leave its farm and home under threat before setting fire to its property in the northern occupied West Bank.

According to local sources, a group of armed settlers stormed the Khilat Hamad area in az-Zawiya town, west of Salfit, and burned an agricultural hut along with its agricultural contents as well as eight aged olive trees.

The settlers also destroyed a rainwater collection reservoir on the same farm, which belongs to Abdul-Aziz Shaqir.

The sources added that the settlers assaulted Shaqir and his family members and forced them to leave their land, where they had lived for decades.