QALQILIYA (Ma'an) -- Firefighters were called to a Qalqiliya village on Friday after settlers torched Palestinian olive groves, a civil defense spokesman said.
Mohammad Amer said residents of the illegal Gevat Gilad outpost prevented fire engines from reaching Far'ata village. He added that tens of thousands of shekels of damage was caused in part due to the delay.
"It is provocative that firefighters were standing unable to offer help to the farmers or to extinguish the fire which was destroying their trees," Amer said. Urgent intervention was need to stop settlers preventing the civil defense from doing its job, he added.
Meanwhile, residents of villages west of Nablus said settlers burned hundreds of dunums of olive groves. Farmers from Sarra and Jit said their olive and almond crops were destroyed.
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