Israeli settlers on Sunday morning prevented Palestinian farmers from picking their olive harvest in Nablus’s southern town of Hawara in the northern occupied West Bank.
Palestinians living in Hawara headed to their land lots near Israel’s illegal settlement of Yitzhar built on Palestinian lands south of Nablus before they were attacked by a horde of extremist Israeli settlers Hawara Mayor Nasser Hawari told PIC.
Israeli army troops showed up in the area shortly afterwards and forced Palestinian olive pickers out of their olive groves.
The Israeli settlers assaulted the farmers in the presence of the occupation soldiers and set fire to Palestinian lands causing damage to the olive harvest.
