Israeli settlers set fire to olive groves near Nablus

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Extremist Jewish settlers on Friday afternoon set fire to olive groves in Mount Sulaiman near the village of Bourin to the south of the northern West Bank village of Nablus.Eyewitnesses told PIC that more than 20 settlers set fire to the trees in Mount Sulaiman near the village burning 80 dunums (8 Hectares) of land including hundreds of olive trees.The sources said that the Israeli occupation forces did nothing to stop the attack by the settlers against the land the villagers and that the Palestinian fire brigades could not put out the fire, until the preparation of this report.Settlers’ attacks against Palestinians have lately increased in terms of frequency and violence, especially in the southern West Bank./129