Israeli settlers cut down 40 olive trees overnight in Jerusalem Israeli settlers cut down around 40 olive trees overnight in occupied East Jerusalem, according to Wafa news agency. Witnesses told Wafa that a group of Israeli settlers stormed the town of Mekhmas, before deliberately destroying the trees. Olive trees are a key source of income for Palestinian families. Israeli attacks on agriculture, including olive trees, have increased in recent years. Elsewhere, Wafa reported that Israeli settlers set fire to a vehicle belonging to a Palestinian in the town of Huwara in the occupied West Bank, and sprayed racist graffiti on the owner's home.