NABLUS, February 21, 2011 (WAFA) - Abed al-Razek Dawabsheh spent 35 years in cultivating his olive field only to lose it in a single blow.

On Sunday’s night, Jewish settlers cut down olive trees in Duma, a village south east of Nablus and ran away.

The villagers said that this is the latest attack in the southern rural area of Nablus which witnessed several attacks in the recent months; settlers attacked villages in Nablus and fired machine guns and dangerous weapons at Palestinians.

Settlers cut down hundreds of olive trees and burned fields; the attacks never end, they added.

“I was the first to revitalize the land but they came and destroyed it”, said Dawabsheh.

Dawabsheh’s son who was collecting branches of the destroyed trees, said: “They didn’t want us to rehabilitate land.”

Settlers used handsaws to cut the trees and used their own hands to cut the seedlings. 

Jebrin Bakri, mayor of Nablus, said that USA should have considered such settlers’ attacks instead of rushing into using the veto.

Gillard Maxwell, Deputy Secretary General of UN, said:  “Establishing a Palestinian state is extremely difficult in the existence of settlements in the West bank...we don’t only ask to stop settlements’ construction in Palestinian Territory  but we also ask for removing them.”   

Scores of Jewish Settlements are built in Nablus and settlers can harm Palestinians without any punishment.

 R.S./F.R.