BETHLEHEM, Wednesday, June 21, 2023 (WAFA) – Continuing their rampage of terror and violence against the Palestinian people, Israeli settlers Wednesday afternoon torched a large tract of farmland in Husan village, west of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to WAFA correspondent.

He said that Jewish supremacist settlers set fire to a large tract of farmland belonging to the villagers of Husan for the second time within few days, destroying dozens of olive trees and triggering confrontations.

The villagers gathered to put off the fire, but they found it difficult to reach the area.

The arsonists came from the nearby encroaching colonial settlement of Beitar Illit.

The gun-toting soldiers unleashed barrages of fire on the young men, particularly at the eastern entrance to the village, the epicenter of confrontations, without any report of casualties.

Meanwhile, settlers attacked once again Burqa town, northwest of the West Bank city of Nablus, descending upon a house at the town entrance and attempting to attack it, triggering confrontations.

The attacks came just few hours after settlers sabotaged three agricultural shacks, ruined their contents and destroyed trees in the town.

Meanwhile, extremist settlers congregated at the entrance of Yasuf village, east of Salfit, and hurled stones at Palestinian vehicles travelling nearby, smashing their windshields, and attempted to verbally assault the passengers.

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

Settler violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.

There are over 700,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

K.F.