Israeli settlers cut down 100 olive trees in the occupied West Bank

Israeli settlers have destroyed more than 100 olive trees in the eastern part of Qarawat Bani Hassan, a town west of Salfit in the occupied West Bank, according to the town’s mayor.

Ibrahim Asi told Wafa news agency that the trees, owned by local resident Muhannad Sufyan Rayyan, were cut down and vandalised in what he described as yet another attack in a long pattern of settler violence targeting Palestinian land and farmers.

Elsewhere, in Kafr ad-Dik, also west of Salfit, settlers assaulted Nasser Faraj Naji while he was working on his land in the town’s northern area. He was injured and taken to Salfit Government Hospital for treatment.

The settlers reportedly also tried to set fire to a small agricultural structure belonging to another resident, Ahmed Mohammed Ali.