Jewish settlers attack farmers harvesting olive crops

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Jewish settlers attacked Palestinian farmers while harvesting their olive crops in Susiya village in Al-Khalil.Nasr Nawaja, an activist in the village, told Quds Press on Saturday that a masked settler led a group of settlers in the attack.He said that the settlers threw stones on the farmers and some of them were injured.Other groups of settlers had cut off a number of olive trees in Tal Al-Rumaida in Al-Khalil city on Friday in a fresh escalation of attacks by settlers on Palestinian farmers during the olive harvesting season.Youth against settlement took photos of settlers while chopping off those trees and taking them to the nearby settlement outpost Ramat Yishai.In Nablus, settlers torched vast tracts of lands cultivated with olives in Deir Al-Hatab, Salem, and Beit Dajan villages to the east of the city.Local sources said that the fire destroyed dozens of dunums and continued till a late night hour on Thursday.Meanwhile, settlers burned down three cars in Burqa village to the north of Ramallah also on Thursday, locals said./149