Israeli settlers today torched Palestinian crops in Kisan village, east of the southern occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, according to municipal source. The village mayor, Mousa Ebayyat, said that a group of settlers set fire to wheat and barely crops planted in a plot land belonging to two farmers from the village. The assailants came from the nearby colonial settlement of Ma’ale Amos. Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities. Settler violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others. There are over 700,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.

Source: Palestine News & Information Agency