SALFIT, Saturday, May 6, 2023 (WAFA) – Hardcore Israeli settlers today destroyed about 258 olive saplings for a Palestinian landlord in the town of Kafr al-Dik, in the occupied West Bank province of Salfit, according to local sources.

Taysir Ali Ahmad, the landlord, told WAFA that a group of Israeli settlers sneaked into his own land on the outskirts of the town and smashed as many as 258 olive saplings which he had planted over the last few years.

Ahmad said he had incurred nearly 70,000 shekels (about $19,000) in maintenance of his own land, including planting nearly 450 olive saplings, some of which were destroyed today by the Israeli settlers.

Israeli settler violence against Palestinians and their property is commonplace in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.

There are over 600,000 Israeli settlers illegally occupying portions of the West Bank in violation of international law and established norms prohibiting the relocation of the occupying power's civil population to the land of the occupied.

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