Violence by settlers

On Thursday, 30 June, settlers torched fields surrounding the Yizhar settlement. Aapparently in response to the knife-point carjacking of a vehicle belonging to a Yitzhar settler the previous night. The fires burned dozens of dunams of land, including, according to military and Civil Administration officials quoted in the media, around 400 olive trees of residents of Burin and Huwara. A Palestinian from Burin, Mu’az Sufan, a volunteer in B'Tselem’s camera project, documented one of the torchings.