Israeli settlers on Saturday morning attacked Palestinian farmers who were harvesting olives in Burin town south of Nablus city in the northern West Bank.
Head of Burin’s village council Yahya Qadous told the PIC reporter that a group of Israeli settlers coming from Yitzhar settlement attacked Palestinian farmers under the protection of the Israeli occupation forces.
Qadous said that confrontations broke out between the settlers and the Palestinian farmers during which the Israeli forces fired teargas canisters at the farmers.
Meanwhile in the same town another group of settlers attacked the house of the Palestinian citizen Basheer al-Zaben and uprooted the fence installed around the house to protect it.
An Israeli military patrol later raided the area provided protection to the settlers who were clashing with Palestinian citizens and heavily fired teargas canisters at the Palestinians.
