Israeli settlers chopped down on Monday some 40 olive trees in As-Sawiya town, south of the West Bank city of Nablus.

Wafa News Agency quoted Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement construction in the northern West Bank, as stating that a group of settlers from the nearby Israeli colonial settlement of Rechelim chopped off some 40 olive trees belonging to Abdul-Rahman Mohammad Yousef, a local Palestinian farmer.

Settler violence against Palestinians and their property is routine in the West Bank and is rarely prosecuted by Israeli authorities.

Settlers' violence includes property and mosque arsons, stone-throwing, uprooting of crops and olive trees, attacks on vulnerable homes, among others.

There are almost 834,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem.