HEBRON, June 4, 2012 (WAFA) – Settlers from Havat Maon, an illegal settlement south of Hebron, Monday set fire to crops in Palestinian-owned land east of Yatta, a town south of Hebron, according to a local activist.
The Popular Committee Coordinator in Yatta, Rateb Jabour, told WAFA that Israeli settlers set fire to the wheat fields in a private Palestinian land.
He said the arson was part of Israeli attempts to force local residents to leave their land in order to take it over to expand illegal Jewish settlements.
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