A Palestinian activist argues with an Israeli soldier after he prevented a Palestinian family and their supporters to harvest 5 olive trees in the West bank village of Kafr Qalil near a spring confiscated by the settlers of Har Bracha. October 23, 2012

Ahead of olive harvest – Settlers chop down trees near Nablus

Settlers chopped down more than 100 olive trees Saturday morning in Deir Sharaf village south of Nablus, a Palestinian official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settler activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an Palestinian news agency that settlers from Shave Shomron settlement stormed olive fields in the al-Ghazan neighborhood of Deir Sharaf and destroyed…