A group of Israeli settlers on Saturday set fire to Palestinian-owned farmland destroying dozens of trees in Huwara town in the West Bank district of Nablus.
Activist Ghassan Daghlas who monitors settler violations in the northern West Bank said that a horde of Israeli settlers burned vast tracts of privately-owned land in Huwara.
Daghlas said that dozens of olive and almond trees were destroyed in the arson attack.
Settler violence against Palestinian citizens and their property is commonplace in the occupied West Bank but recent days have seen a noticeable rise in arson attacks targeting farmlands with Nablus being one of the hardest-hit areas.
