WEST BANK, (The Palestinian Information Center) A group of Jewish settlers on Monday set fire to agricultural land in the village of Yatma, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank, while others cut down more than 21 fruitful olive trees in the village of Far’ata, west of Salfit.
Local sources quoted Ahmed Abu Sanoubar, head of the Yatma village council, as saying that a group of settlers disembarked from a bus on the main road north of the village and set fire to olive trees along the roadside, some of which were completely burned.
Along the same line, settlers threw stones at passing Palestinian vehicles near the Yitzhar settlement south of Nablus, with no injuries reported, according to local sources.
In Salfit, settlers also demolished around 110 meters of stone walls and cut down over 21 olive trees. Residents were unable to access some of the sites affected due to ongoing settler activity, according to WAFA news agency.
According to the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, settlers carried out 431 attacks against Palestinians and their property in the West Bank during August alone.
