Tel Aviv Tribune’s correspondent reported that extremist settlers set fire – today, Friday – to agricultural lands in the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, for the second time in less than a week.
The mayor of the town of Burqa, Sayel Kinan, said that Israeli settlers burned about 400 dunums of Palestinian land planted with fruit trees such as olives.
Kenan added that the settlers re-attacked the town and tried to burn Palestinian homes, and they also burned a warehouse for old vehicles.
Settlers attack Palestinian agricultural lands in the village of Burqa, east of Ramallah in the West Bank, and set them on fire#Gaza_War #video pic.twitter.com/zuNy5mkNHK
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He stated that Israeli occupation army forces opened fire on a group of Palestinians who tried to repel the settlers’ attack.
He pointed out that settler attacks in the town since October 7 “escalated and varied between attacking people and homes, cutting down trees, preventing access to fields, and burning crops.”
Kenan condemned these attacks, calling for “immediate intervention to stop the attacks carried out under the protection of the Israeli army.”
Since October 7, attacks by the Israeli army and settlers in the West Bank, including Jerusalem, have led to the death of 531 Palestinians, the injury of about 5,000, and the arrest of 9,040, according to Palestinian sources.
While the Israeli war on Gaza resulted in more than 120,000 Palestinian martyrs and wounded, most of them children and women, and more than 10,000 missing people, amid massive destruction and famine that claimed the lives of children and the elderly.