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Tuesday 02 Jun 2026
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Illegal settlers set fire to Palestinian olive groves across occupied West Bank governorates. (Photo/ Reuters)
Israeli illegal settlers have attacked and injured three Palestinian children and set fire to agricultural land across the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.
Sources told Anadolu agency that a group of illegal settlers intercepted a Palestinian vehicle near the Shilo settlement south of Nablus and hurled stones directly at it, injuring three children inside.
The sources said the family is from the town of Abwein, north of Ramallah, and that the injured children were transferred to a medical centre in the town of Sinjil for treatment.
One of the children, aged 14, suffered head injury after being struck by a stone, while the two younger children sustained minor injuries from shattered glass, the sources added.
Farmlands and olive groves torched
In separate incidents, illegal settlers set fire to Palestinian agricultural land in the Ramallah and Nablus governorates.
Local sources said Israeli illegal settlers torched olive groves between the towns of Turmus Ayya and Abu Falah, northeast of Ramallah.
They added that Israeli forces raided the area and provided protection for the illegal settlers after local residents confronted them and forced them to withdraw.
The forces also prevented civil defence crews from reaching the scene to extinguish the fire.
In the village of Duma, south of Nablus, illegal settlers also set fire to land on which olive trees grow near the village entrance, causing damage to several trees.
Meanwhile, settlers grazed herds of camels and sheep on Palestinian farmland east of the villages of Taybeh and Rammun near Ramallah, causing extensive damage to crops and financial losses to Palestinian farmers.
Israel has escalated incursions and brutally treated Palestinians in the occupied West Bank, including occupied East Jerusalem, since launching genocide on Gaza on October 7, 2023.
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Source: TRT
