Israeli Settlers set on fire dozens of olive trees

Twenty Palestinian olive trees et on fire on Saturday night near Burin village, south of Nablus, after Israeli settlers from Bracha settlement attacked the area. Ghassan Daghlas, in charge of monitoring settlement activity north of the West Bank, said that dozens of settlers attacked the fields south of Burin village and chased away shepherds. He said that the settlers set fire to the olive trees burning out 20 of them and damaging many others. Dahglas pointed out that more than 50 Jewish settlers wearing white clothes assaulted the shepherds triggering violent confrontations. He added that Israeli occupation forces arrived to the scene and fired teargas at Palestinian citizens .