Agencies-Gaza post
Extrimest settlers chop off olive trees in Hebron
Scores of Israeli settlers on Sunday uprooted and chopped off about 20 olive trees for Palestinian farmers in the village of Al-Tuwani, south of the occupied West Bank province of Hebron, local sources reported.
Local Palestinian activist, Rateb Jabour, said that a group of Israeli settlers from the illegal settlement of Maon uprooted and chopped off nearly 20 olive trees referred to local Palestinian civilians.
Sources reported that despite violence and vandalism by Israeli settlers are commonplace throughout the year, attacks and acts of vandalism by Israeli settlers intensified during the past six months across the occupied West Bank, especially in the north of the territory.
It added that Israeli settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli occupation authorities.
It concluded that there are more than 600,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in violation of international law and consensus.
