OCHA report: Israeli settlers have burned 1000 olive trees in the West Bank over past two weeks

OCCUPIED AL-QUDS, (ST)- The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has stressed that the Israeli settlers have burned 1000 olive trees and stolen large quantities of olive crop in the occupied West Bank over the past two weeks.

WAFA News Agency cited OCHA report on protecting civilians as saying that during the past two weeks, the Israeli settlers set fire to 450 olive trees in the town of Ya’bud in Jenin city. They also burned 500  olive trees in Safa village, to the west of Ramallah, and 30 others in Barqa village, to the north of Ramallah.

 The report pointed out that the settlers stole large quantities of the olive crop in the West Bank and attacked Palestinian farmers during the harvest time, which resulted in the injury of 85 Palestinians.

The report indicated that the Israeli occupation forces carried out 126 raids and arrested 132 Palestinians in various parts of the West Bank. They bulldozed wide areas of Palestinian agricultural lands in the south of the besieged Gaza Strip, vandalizing crops and irrigation systems.

According to the report, the occupation forces demolished eight houses, five of them in the town of Masafer Yatta in al-Khalil city and three in the town of Al-Farisiyeh in the northern Jordan valley.

Hamda Mustafa