A group of Israeli settlers on Friday afternoon stole olive crops from Palestinian lands in Awarta town to the south of Nablus city.
Eyewitnesses reported that a number of Palestinian activists managed to record a video of a group of settlers stealing olives near the illegal settlement of Itamar.
The Palestinian researcher Khalid Ma’ali said that the Palestinian lands adjacent to Israeli settlements or located behind the separation wall are the most vulnerable to such thefts which occur every year especially in the southern area of Nablus province.
Ma’ali pointed out that Palestinian farmers during the olive harvest season suffer heavy losses that increase each new year because of the settlement expansion and the Israeli army’s protection of the settlers who steal the crops.
