TULKARM, Sunday, April 2, 2023 (WAFA) – Extremist Israeli settlers last night destroyed four Palestinian-owned shelters and vandalized crops in the village of Shufa, to the southeast of Tulkarm in the northern West Bank, according to local sources.

Tahseen Hamed, a Palestinian farmer from the village, told WAFA that after he arrived at his own farm in the morning, adjacent to the colonial Israeli settlement of Avnei Hefetz--illegally built on Palestinian lands near the village--he was shocked that four shelters of his own with all their content had been razed to the ground by Israeli settlers the previous night.

Hamed added that the settlers also vandalized a small poultry farm and threw dirty items into a water well belonging to him during their rampage in his farm. In addition, he said, newly planted fig, olive and grape trees had been chopped off by the settlers.

He pointed out that this attack was not the first, as settlers usually storm the agricultural lands of the village, release their sheep to graze there, prevent farmers from grazing their sheep and force them to leave at gunpoint.

Violence and vandalism by Israeli settlers are almost a daily routine under Israel’s apartheid regime in occupied Palestine.

More than 650,000 illegal Israeli settlers live in the occupied West Bank in violation of international law.

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