A group of Israeli settlers uprooted, on Tuesday at dawn, olive trees that belongs to Palestinian farmers from the village of Burin, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus.Villagers told media that the settlers came from the nearby illegal settlement of Yetshar, built originally on lands taken from Burin village.

The villagers added that the settler’s attack happened after soldiers attacked the village of Burin and detained four famers.

There are 450,000 settlers living in West Bank settlement. According to international law all those settlements are illegal.