Dozens of Israeli settlers on Wednesday raided Sebastia town north of Nablus in the northern area of the West Bank.
Sebastia’s mayor Mohammed Azem said that on the first day of Eid al-Fitr scores of Israeli settlers guarded by heavily armed soldiers stormed the archaeological area of Sebastia.
The Israeli soldiers threw a cordon around the site and prevented Palestinian residents from approaching the area.
Meanwhile a group of Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian farmlands in Jaloud village south of Nablus.
Anti-settlement activist Ghassan Daghlas said that the settlers torched privately-owned Palestinian fields in Jaloud most of which are planted with olive trees.
