Khalil (Palestine Foundation Information Center), A horde of extremist Jewish settlers vandalized Palestinian property and damaged hundreds of fruitful trees in Khirbet Wadi al-Rakhim in the town of Yatta, south of al-Khalil in the occupied West Bank, on Tuesday.
According to local sources, armed settlers from the illegal Susiya settlement wreaked havoc on 500 olive, fig, almond, and other trees in a grove belonging to Palestinian citizens from the Rumi family.
The settlers, who were escorted by Israeli soldiers, also destroyed the fence surrounding the grove and vandalized the home of Mohamed Rumi.
They also smashed the windows of another house in the same area and scrawled racist graffiti on its walls.
In another incident, a group of settlers damaged a fence around a swath of land owned by Ayed Abu Marir in the Wadi Abu Shaban area, east of Yatta, and released their livestock into cultivated fields.
Earlier, Israeli forces uprooted trees in the village of Kafr Malik, northeast of Ramallah, as well as hundreds of olive trees in the town of Teqoa, southeast of Bethlehem.
