Israeli settlers burn Palestinian farmland in West Bank
Tensions in the Palestinian territory as well as Jerusalem have led to considerable violence between Jews and Arabs in recent weeks.
Israeli settlers set fire to Palestinian farmland in the West Bank last night.
The group of settlers burned a large field and threw rocks at cars with Palestinian license plates in the village of Burin south of Nablus. The attackers came from the nearby Israeli settlement of Har Bracha, according to the Palestinian Authority’s official WAFA News Agency.
The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem also reported on the fires.
The Palestinian Authority's account is disputed. A journalist with Israel's public broadcaster Kan reported that the Israel Defense Forces said that Palestinians started the fire near Har Bracha, and that violence erupted afterwards.
