NABLUS, Tuesday, November 26, 2019 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today torched Palestinian farmlands belonging to Madama village, south of the West Bank city of Nablus.
Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors Israeli colonial settlement construction in the northern West Bank, said that scores of settlers set fire to farmlands of Madama villagers.
The villagers rushed to the scene and attempted to fend off the settlers’ attack, preventing them from approaching and attacking their houses.
The settlers reportedly came from Yitzhar, an illegal settlement inhabited by extremist settlers.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
Settlers‘ violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.
Over 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law.
K.F./M.K.
