Dozens of settlers set on Wednesday a new settlement outpost on Palestinian territories in Beit Dajan village near Nablus city.
The settlers arrived late at night and began setting up the new outpost on private Palestinian lands belonging to the residents of the village, five kilometers away from their homes, eyewitnesses said.
They installed an animal barn and extended water pipelines to supply the new outpost with water from the Alon Moriah Israeli settlement near the village.
They also built a several-kilometer road, causing damages and confiscating hundreds of dunums of Palestinian lands.
Meanwhile, the Land Research Center of the Arab Studies Society in Jerusalem reported that the Israeli army issued 63 military orders to close areas and lands planted with olive trees in separate parts of the West Bank, coinciding with the beginning of the harvest season in the Palestinian territories.
The orders target about 3,000 dunums of lands planted with olive trees in separate areas of the governorates of Hebron, Bethlehem, Ramallah, Nablus.
The army considered them as part of or belonging to the settlements.
According to the orders, nobody is allowed to enter these areas, and whoever is present therein shall immediately leave. They also claimed that they exclude holders of permits issued by the occupation authorities.
This means that many Palestinian families and farmers will not have access to their lands and would not be unable to harvest their trees or make olive oil.
Palestinians considered the military orders an official support from the occupation authorities for settlers who usually wait for the olive harvest season to prevent farmers from accessing their lands.
In Wednesday, Israelis of Leshem settlement burned nearly 50 olive trees in Deir Samaan area, east of Deir Ballut.
