HEBRON, June 2, 2012 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers from Ramat Yishai settlement in the southern West Bank city of Hebron Saturday set fire to ancient olive trees in Tel Rumeida, a neighborhood in the center of Hebron, and attacked a local youth center and houses, said local sources.

Witnesses told WAFA that a group of extremist settlers set fire to several hundreds-of-years old olive trees, including a tree over 3000 years old, and attacked houses in the neighborhood.

The settlers also raided an office for the Youth against Settlements group and tried to bring down the Palestinian flag in the area flying over the office’s roof, said local residents, noting that settlers had previously taken down the flag.

In a related matter, Israeli settlers wrote racist slogans inciting against Arabs and Palestinians on the walls of Qurtoba school and Palestinian houses in Shuhada street in the city.

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