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NABLUS, September 27, 2012 (WAFA) – A group of Jewish settlers Thursday uprooted around 60 olive trees in Burin, a village south of Nablus, according to a local activist.

Ghassan Douglas, the in charge of settlements file at the Palestinian Authority in the northern part of the West Bank, told WAFA, that a number of Jewish settlers attacked an area east of the village, uprooted around 60 olive trees belonging to one of the residents and confiscated them.

He added settlers have been lately stealing the olive trees from several areas in Nablus city.

T.R./F.R.