Occupied Jerusalem - SANA
The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) confirmed that Israeli settlers burned 1,000 olive trees and stole large quantities of the crop in the occupied West Bank during the past two weeks.
Wafa news agency quoted the office as saying in the Civilian Protection report covering the period between the 6 and the 19 of this month that settlers set fire to 450 olive trees in the town of Yabed in Jenin and more than 500 trees in the village of Safa, west of Ramallah, and 30 trees in The village of Cyrenaica in its north.
The report pointed out that settlers stole large quantities of the olive harvest in the West Bank and attacked Palestinian farmers during the harvest, which resulted in the injury of 85 Palestinians.
The report indicated that the occupation forces carried out 126 raids and arrested 132 Palestinians in various parts of the West Bank and bulldozed areas of Palestinian agricultural lands in the south of the besieged Gaza Strip, destroying several dunams of crops and irrigation systems.
The report stated that the occupation forces demolished eight houses, five of them in the town of Masafer Yatta in Hebron and three in the town of Al-Farisiya in the northern Jordan Valley.