A group of Israeli settlers chopped down overnight dozens of olive trees in a Palestinian-owned agricultural land to the south of the northern West Bank city of Jenin.
Local sources affirmed that settlers from the illegal settlement of Dotan chopped the trees in Arrabeh town south of Jenin.
The attacked trees many of them over 15 years old were planted in a land located near the settlement the sources added.
Earlier Friday dozens of Israeli settlers broke into Wadi Ali area of al-Lubban ash-Sharqiya village located 20 kilometers south of Nablus and cut down 200 trees.
The agriculture industry olive cultivation in particular provides livelihood for some 80000 Palestinian families living in the occupied West Bank.
Settlers mostly armed regularly attack Palestinian villages and farms and set fire to their mosques olive groves and other properties in the West Bank under the so-called “price tag” policy.
