Israeli settlers set fire to hundreds of olive trees on Tuesday in the village of Duma, south of Nablus in the northern occupied West Bank.
According to local sources, settlers from the illegal settlement of Yitzhar ignited flames across dozens of dunams along a bypass road, resulting in the destruction of hundreds of olive trees.
Residents and Palestinian Civil Defense teams rushed to extinguish the fire, but settlers and Israeli forces obstructed their efforts—reportedly preventing fire trucks from accessing water from a village well near the Al-Murabba checkpoint.
Settler attacks in the occupied West Bank have escalated sharply in parallel with Israel’s ongoing war on Gaza.
In May alone, Israel’s Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission documented 415 settler attacks on Palestinians and their property. These included armed assaults, land bulldozing, vandalism, and the uprooting of trees.
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