Israelis uproot 80 olive trees in Palestinian village
A group of Israeli settlers have raided orchards in a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank, uprooting more than 80 olive trees.
Driving several bulldozers, the Israelis cut down the olive trees belonging to the residents of the Deir Estia Village, located northwest of the central West Bank district of Salfit, on Saturday.
According to local villagers, the Israelis bulldozed the trees in an attempt to expand a road leading to a nearby illegal settler unit.
Amal Kokash, the head of Deir Estia council, said the Israelis are seeking to enlarge specially the eight settlements overlooking Qana Valley in the northeastern part of Salfit.
Israeli settlers are seeking to gain control over all natural resources in Salfit and the rest of the occupied West Bank, Kokash added.
Palestinian researcher Khaled Ma’aly said the Israeli regime is trying to expand all of its 24 settlements as well as its four industrial zones in Salfit.
The agriculture industry, olive cultivation in particular, provides livelihood for some 80,000 Palestinian families living in the West Bank.
Settlers, mostly armed, regularly attack Palestinian villages and farms and set fire to their mosques, olive groves and other properties in the West Bank under the so-called “price tag” policy.
Israel has reportedly uprooted more than 800,000 olive trees in the occupied territories since 1967.
On Friday, the Tel Aviv regime approved the construction of 12 houses in the Shilo and Shavuot Raheel illegal settlements, situated in the north of the West Bank city of Ramallah.
More than half a million Israelis live in over 120 settlements built since Israel’s occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank in 1967. This is while much of the international community considers the settler units as illegal and subject to the Geneva Conventions, which forbid construction on occupied lands.
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