A group of Israeli settlers on Tuesday uprooted hundreds of olive saplings in Yatta town south of al-Khalil, in the occupied West Bank.

The popular committee coordinator Rateb al-Jabour said that settlers uprooted 200 olive saplings belonging to the Palestinian farmer Barakat Mur.

Speaking to Quds Press, al-Jabour pointed out that the settlers’ attack is the third of its kind carried out in Yatta town.