A group of Israeli settlers on Wednesday chopped off a number of Palestinian-owned olive trees in Kafr ad-Dik town in the West Bank district of Salfit.
Zaher Taha the owner of the destroyed trees said in press statements that a group of Israeli settlers from Brukhin settlement stormed his farmland and cut down 15 olive trees which he planted 4-6 years ago.
Taha said that this attack is not the first of its kind explaining that settler gangs constantly attack his farmland and wreak havoc on it.
The Palestinian farmer added that in 2011 the Israeli occupation forces destroyed some of his equipment and demolished an over 100-year-old water well which he used for irrigation.
Settler attacks on Palestinian citizens and their property is commonplace in the West Bank and they are rarely investigated by the Israeli authorities.
