NABLUS (PIC)– Jewish settlers on Wednesday burnt more than 25 dunums of Palestinian lands in Burqa village near the evacuated settlement of Homesh to the west of Nablus city on Wednesday locals reported.

They said that the lands owned by five Palestinians were planted with olive trees.

The sources noted that the settlers have escalated their assaults on Palestinian farms this summer in the hope of annexing those lands after their owners desert them.

Also on Wednesday Israeli police rounded up 81 Palestinian workers in the lands occupied in 1948 for “illegal” residence.

The Israeli police routinely arrest hundreds of those workers for not possessing necessary work permits. Many of them are imprisoned fined and humiliated before the IOF return them to the West Bank.

Human rights organizations reported that some of those laborers are asked to work for the Israeli intelligence in return for granting them work permits.

Five Palestinians were detained in northern West Bank at the hands of Israeli occupation forces on Wednesday while two others were arrested in Qalqilia in the afternoon for throwing stones at settlers’ vehicles.

IOF soldiers kidnapped two Palestinian teenagers in the village of Ya’bad Jenin district at a late hour on Wednesday.

NABLUS (PIC)– Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian homes in Assira Qabalia village south of Nablus city and set fire to their crops on Monday night local sources reported.

They said that dozens of settlers from the nearby Yitzhar settlement established on lands of the village along with other nearby villages threw firebombs and stones at the houses under the protection of Israeli occupation forces who fired bullets and gas canisters to disperse the citizens who tried to repel the settlers’ attack.

A number of citizens were treated for suffocation and injuries from flying glass the sources said.

They said that the settlers started fires in the village’s barley and wheat fields and the IOF soldiers blocked firefighters from reaching the cultivated lands to put off the fire.

In the Gaza Strip the Qassam Brigades the armed wing of Hamas on Monday evening confronted an IOF unit that tried to infiltrate into Zaitun suburb east of Gaza city.

The armed wing said in a communiqué that the Qassam fighters fired two mortar shells at the invading soldiers.