On the morning of 16 March 2011, residents of the
Palestinian village of At-Tuwani discovered that someone had destroyed six of
their olive trees in the night. The
villagers said that the perpetrators were almost certainly Israeli settlers
from the nearby outpost of Havat Ma'on. āSettlers did this ... they did this because of the settlers
who were murdered near Nablus,ā said Fadil Ahmed Raba'i, referring to the recent
murders of a settler family inside the northern West Bank settlement of Itamar