An-Najah News - Israeli settlers uprooted Monday night a number of saplings planted in Deir Istiya and Hares towns in Salfit.

A group of settlers sneaked into Khallet Abu Al-Ala, west of Hares town, and destroyed some fig and olive saplings in an attempt to prevent the villagers from reclaiming their farmlands threatened with being confiscated from Israeli colonial settlement construction said the farmer Amjad Sultan.

Khallet Abu al-Ala, a tract of 42 dunums, belongs to the villagers of Hares and Deir Istiya.
Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.