NABLUS (PIC)– A group of Israeli settlers set fire Thursday evening to dozens of dunums of Palestinian-owned agricultural lands planted with olive trees near the Qablan junction south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
Eyewitnesses told a PIC reporter that several settlers from the Israeli settlement of Rachalim illegally built on Palestinian lands near al-Sawiya village set fire to dozens of dunums of farmlands.
Large parts of the surrounding area quickly caught fire due to the heat causing dozens more olive and other trees to burn the sources added.
According to the United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs there has been a total of 49 reported settler attacks against Palestinians and their properties in the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem since the start of 2016 and a total of 221 attacks in 2015.
