NABLUS, Friday, October 14, 2022 (WAFA) – Israeli fanatic settlers Friday chopped down several olive trees and stole olive fruits in areas to the south of the occupied West Bank city of Nablus, local sources said.

Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, said that settlers chopped down olive trees in the village of Qusra and Qaryiot and stole olive fruits from the village of Awarta.

He said that the settlers escalated their violations against Palestinians and their properties recently.

Extremist Israeli settlers’ 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.

Between 500,000 and 600,000 Israelis live in Jewish-only settlements across occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank in violation of international law.

All settlements across the West Bank are illegal under international law, particularly article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention, which establishes that the occupying power shall not deport or transfer parts of its own civilian population into the territory it occupies.

K.T.