Israeli settlers chop down olive trees, steal harvesting equ… – MENAFN.COM

Israeli settlers chop down olive trees, steal harvesting equ… – MENAFN.COM

Israeli settlers today chopped down scores of olive trees and stole crops and harvesting equipment in the Nablus district, according to local sources. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors colonial settlement activities in the northern West Bank, said that Palestinian farmers of Salem town, east of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, were shocked to find out in the morning that dozens of their olive trees, east of the town, were chopped down by settlers from nearby colonial settlements. Settlers also chopped more than 100 olive trees, sprayed others with pesticides, and stole olive crops from farmers in the village of Jaloud, southeast of Nablus, the second attack so far in this village was this olive harvest season, said Daghlas. Meanwhile, Nasser Snubar, a farmer from Yatma village, south of Nablus city, said that a group of settlers sneaked into his olive grove, south of the village, and stole his harvesting equipment. While the olive harvest season is meant to be a celebratory time in Palestine, the joyful time has become overshadowed by Israeli land restrictions and brutal settler attacks. Settlers have recently stepped up their attacks against olive harvesters in the southern district of Nablus, attacking farmers of Burin town