A horde of extremist Jewish settlers wreaked havoc on dozens of olive trees on Saturday in the northwest of al-Khalil.
Iyad Hamidat head of the municipality in Surif town said that settlers from the illegal settlement of Bat Ayin destroyed and uprooted over 50 olive trees in Daher al-Mansara area in the east of the town.
Later local farmers clashed with the settlers and managed to fend them off.
The trees belonged to several local farmers from Surif town.