Agencies-Gaza post
Israeli settlers burn wheat crops in Nablus
Israeli settlers on Thursday burned the wheat crops of Qusra town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, according to local sources.
Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors Israeli colonial settlement attacks in the northern West Bank, said that a bunch of settlers set fire to the wheat crops back to the town farmers.
He said that firefighters rushed to the scene and managed to put out the blaze with the help of the villagers while warning of intensive settler attacks, particularly in the Nablus countryside, amid attempts to set up new colonial settlement outposts.
For two days, Israeli soldiers and officers of the so-called “Civil Administration” precluded Palestinians from operating on their lands in the village, purportedly for being classified as Area C.
The town has been a scene of frequent Israeli military and settler attacks, including the installation of makeshift houses on the villagers’ land as a means for colonial settlement expansion, striking farmers on their way to their olive groves, stopping agricultural roads, leveling lands and serving stop-construction orders.
Settler brutality against Palestinians and their property is commonplace in the West Bank and is rarely charged by Israeli authorities.
It contains arsons of property and mosques, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, and attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.
The number of settlers living in Jewish-only colonial settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in the attack of international law has jumped to over 700,000 and colonial settlement expansion has tripled since the signing of the Oslo Accords in 1993.
