NABLUS, May 19, 2017 (WAFA) – Israeli settlers Friday set fire to a Palestinian-owned bulldozer and scrawled anti-Palestinian graffiti in the village of Burin to the south of Nablus, according to a local official.

Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in northern West Bank, told WAFA settlers broke into the village and spray painted anti-Palestinian graffiti on the walls. They further set fire to a bulldozer belonging to one of the village residents who was identified as Abdel-Atheem Idris.

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

It involves property arson attacks, including churches and mosques arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees and attacks against vulnerable Palestinian homes.

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.

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