Israeli settlers yesterday burned olive bushes owned by Palestinians within the West Financial institution’s northern occupied metropolis of Nablus.
Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian official who displays settlement actions within the northern West Financial institution, informed Wafa {that a} “group of settlers from the unlawful Har Brakha settlement in Nablus had stolen olives from land owned by Omar Youssuf Al-Qenni in Kafr Qalil city.”
“The Israeli settlers set hearth to dozens of olive bushes within the land between the Jorish and Qusra villages, close to the unlawful Israeli settlement of Majdolim,” Daghlas added.
The Palestinian official warned of an “escalation of settler assaults as we method the start of the olive harvest season,” including that they have been focusing on Palestinian farmers and lands, “particularly within the areas adjoining to their settlements.”
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Settler assaults on Palestinian farmers and their lands have been reported to have escalated in latest months, coinciding with the beginning of the olive harvest season. Palestinians say that the Israeli authorities permit settlers to proceed their assaults with no penalties as a part of official efforts to accentuate settlement development within the occupied territories.
Some 650,000 Israelis are at present dwelling illegally within the West Financial institution, scattered throughout 164 settlements and 124 outposts.
Underneath worldwide regulation, all Jewish settlements and outposts in occupied territories are thought-about unlawful.
