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NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Jewish extremists set fire on Sunday to Palestinian olive fields south of Nablus in the northern West Bank, a Palestinian Authority official said.

Ghassan Daughlas, who monitors settlement activities, said a group of settlers from the Yizhar settlement raided the Palestinians fields of the Einabus village and set fire to a vast area of olive fields, completely destroying 200 trees.

Locals extinguished the flames, he added.