NABLUS,
Monday, August 23, 2021 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers today torched dozens of olive
trees in Burin town, south of the northern West Bank city of Nablus, according
to witnesses.
They
said that a group of settlers set fire to dozens of olive trees belonging to Akram Omran in the southern part
of the town.
The
settlers came from Yitzhar, a colonial settlement
notorious for its hardcore religious community.
Burin
town has been the scene of frequent settler attacks, including cutting down
fully grown olive trees, setting fire to fields and crops, stealing the olive
harvest, attacking olive harvesters and foreign volunteers, and hurling Molotov
Cocktails toward houses in the town.
Settler
violence against Palestinians and their property is commonplace in the West
Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.
It
includes arsons of property and mosques, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and
olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.
The
number of settlers living in Jewish-only colonial settlements across occupied
East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law has jumped
to over 700,000 and colonial settlement expansion has tripled since the signing
of Oslo Accords in 1993.
Israel’s
nation-state law, passed in July 2018, enshrines Jewish supremacy, and states
that building and strengthening the colonial settlements is a “national
interest.”
K.F.