HEBRON, March 9, 2017 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers cut dozens of olive trees and sprayed pesticides on crops in land southeast of Yatta in the south of the West Bank, a local activist said on Thursday.

The activist, Rateb Jbour, from the popular committees against settlements in the south of the West Bank, told WAFA that farmers were surprised when they got to their land to find their two-year old olive trees cut and their crops sprayed with deadly pesticide.

He said settlers from the illegal Maon outpost cut the fence around the farm owned by Fadel Rabee and his brothers, cut dozens of trees the family had planted two years ago and destroyed their crops.

Residents in that area regularly complain that the extremist Maon settlers attack their farms and homes hoping that they would eventually abandon their land.

M.K.