A horde of Jewish settlers on Thursday set fire to Palestinian fields and farmlands in Ramin town in the West Bank district of Tulkarem.
Local sources said that a group of Jewish settlers from Einav Settlement which was built on illegally-seized Palestinian-owned land from Ramin village deliberately burned vast areas of Palestinian farmland.
The same sources reported that the settlers were escorted by armed soldiers during the attack.
Palestinian farmer Emad Salman said that dozens of olive and almond trees in his 50-dunum land were completely destroyed.
Tulkarem’s Agriculture Department said an area of over 400 dunums was damaged in the attack.
Arson attacks carried out by Jewish settlers sometimes in the presence of Israeli soldiers serving as escorts have been on the rise in recent weeks in the occupied West Bank with farmlands being the main target.
Palestinian citizens especially farmers who are hardest hit suffer heavy losses from these planned and rarely prosecuted attacks.
