Jewish settlers axe 120 olive trees in Nablus

Settlers truncated Tuesday morning dozens of olive trees from the Palestinian Reut village lands south of Nablus. Settlers chopped about 120 olive trees in the Qaryut village fields, said Ghassan Douglas, who is in charge of the settlements file at the Palestinian Authority in the northern part of the West Bank. They might have set off from Eilih settlement near the village or from another, he added. Jewish settlers are waging daily attacks against Palestinian farmers in the West Bank, especially in rural southern Nablus, where insurgent attacks were on the rise during the first days of the olive harvest.