Israeli settlers set fire to large swaths of land in the village of al-Lubban Asharqiya, south of Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, the Wafa news agency reports

The head of the village council, Yaqoub Awis, told Wafa that settlers set fire to olive tree fields near the road between Ramallah and Nablus.

In August, the Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission found that Israeli settlers had undertaken 206 acts of vandalism and theft of citizens’ property.

The settlers also stole 509 herds of sheep, seized nine vehicles and tractors, and uprooted 477 trees, including 397 olive trees, in Hebron, Salfit, Bethlehem, Nablus and Ramallah.