A group of Israeli settlers on Wednesday chopped off dozens of olive trees in Palestinian groves in al-Sawiya village south of Nablus.
Eyewitnesses said that Israeli settlers from Rahalim settlement which was built by force on Palestinian-owned lands in al-Sawiya cut down about 50 olive trees in al-Wad area.
They added that the destroyed trees belong to the Palestinian citizen Hamad Hakmeh.