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<div class="article-subtitledetails"><span class="article-details"> <span class="article-detail"><img class="icon" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.imemc.org/graphics/date.gif" alt="author" /> Saturday October 02, 2010 05:51</span><span class="article-detail"><img class="icon" src="https://i0.wp.com/www.imemc.org/graphics/person.gif" alt="author" /> by Saed Bannoura &#8211; IMEMC &amp; Agencies</span></span> <a href="http://www.imemc.org/report_posts?subject=Report%20post:%20Story%2059528%20with%20title:%20Settlement%20Security%20Officer%20Torches%20Palestinian%20Olive%20Trees&amp;message=Report%20post:%20Story%2059528%20with%20title:%20Settlement%20Security%20Officer%20Torches%20Palestinian%20Olive%20Trees%0Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.imemc.org%2Findex.php%3Fobj_id%3D53%26story_id%3D59528%26%0A%0AEnter+your+reason+here+-+please+do+not+remove+the+above+link+as+it+will+allow+an+editor+to+easily+remove+the+offending+content"><img class="icon" title="Report post" src="https://i2.wp.com/www.imemc.org/graphics/report.gif" alt="Report post" /></a></div>
<blockquote class="article-intro"><p>A security guard working at the Itamar  Jewish settlement, near the northern West Bank city of Nablus, torched a  number of olive trees that belong to resident of Awarta village, east  of the city,</p></blockquote>
<p class="article">No’man Awwad, a  40-year-old local villager, told the Maan News Agency that he saw the  security officer parking his jeep near an orchard before he went on to  torch olive trees in Al Bayyada area, near Itamar settlement.</p>
<p>Qais Awwad, deputy head of the Awarta village council, told the Maan  News Agency that Palestinian firefighters rushed to the scene but were  obstructed by the Israeli army at a nearby roadblock.</p>
<p>Ghassan Douglas, in charge of settlements file in the northern part of  the West Bank, stated that settlement security guards became a real  threat to the residents and their lands.</p>
<p>“Their threat is no less that the threats of fundamentalist settlers”,  he said, “They are carrying out repeated attacks against the residents  and their orchards”.</p>
<p><a href="http://www.imemc.org/article/59528">Settlement Security Officer Torches Palestinian Olive Trees &#8211; International Middle East Media Center</a>.</p>
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