WEST BANK, (PIC)
Hordes of extremist Jewish settlers rampaged through different areas of the occupied West Bank on Saturday, setting fire to crops and stealing cars and equipment belonging to Palestinian citizens.
According to local sources, several settlers infiltrated into Khirbet Susya hamlet in Masafer Yatta, south of al-Khalil, and set alight a swath of cultivated land, destroying its crops.
In eastern Nablus, a group of settlers escorted by soldiers stole equipment and trucks from Palestinian workers as they were embarking on setting up a new power line for the village of Beit Dajan.
Local sources said that settlers, with the help of soldiers, attacked electricity workers and local residents near Beit Dajan village, clashed with them, and stole three trucks and equipment from them.
In the northern Jordan Valley, settlers reportedly stole water pumps used for irrigating agricultural lands.
Local official Aref Daraghmeh reported that settlers stole pumps used for delivering water to swaths of Palestinian land planted with crops in Khirbet al-Deir in the northern Jordan Valley, adding that they also vandalized solar panels in the area.
