Another group of Israeli land thieves have destroyed scores of olive trees in the occupied West Bank.
UK Banned Press TV: The settlers destroyed around 200 trees belonging to Palestinian
farmers in the village of Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalailya in the occupied
West Bank, said Ghassan Daghlas, the Palestinian official in charge of
monitoring illegal settlers' activities in the area. He said the settlers from 39 Israeli settlements neighboring the area uprooted the olive saplings on Sunday.
Israeli settlers launch attacks against Palestinians and their property as well as Islamic holy sites.
On January 1, al-Tadamun Foundation for Human Rights, an NGO, said in an annual report that an estimated 8,000 trees, some of them hundreds of years old, had been damaged and destroyed altogether by the Israelis.
"Settlers' attacks include uprooting, burning and cutting down olive trees… Olive groves were also flooded by wastewater from the settlements," said the rights group, adding, "We have been unable to count the hundreds of trees damaged in groves close to settlements due to Israeli security measures."
According to villagers living south of the West Bank city of Nablus, genocidal Israeli land thieves who call themselves 'settlers' used chemicals in several cases last June to burn 1,500 trees there. In the blaze that followed, more than 49 acres of prime agricultural land was also destroyed.




