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Extremist settlers set fire to large areas of land in Nablus
Israeli settlers on Monday evening set fire to large areas of land back to Palestinian civilians in the town of Burin to the south of Nablus, local activist said.
Monitors Israeli settlement activities in the north of the West Bank, Ghassan Daghlas, said that a number of settlers set fire to agricultural land planted with olive trees to the south of the village of Burin, demolishing a massive number of trees.
Israeli settler attacks against Palestinians and their property is daily happened in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Monitor asserted that settlement is a war crime according to the 1998 Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court. The presence of settlers in the Palestinian territories violates the basic principles of international humanitarian law.
“As they are responsible for settler violence, the Israeli authorities should put an end to double standards in dealing with events in the Palestinian territories and discourage settler violence by not protecting it,” it reported.
Source: Wafa
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