Palestine

Israeli occupation forces, settlers uproot Palestinians’ 150 olive trees


Israeli occupation forces (IOF) and Jewish settlers bulldozed vast tracts of Palestinian farmland in Jaba village to the west of Bethlehem on Monday and destroyed 150 olive trees in the process.

Khaled Mashala, a farmer, said that the soldiers and the settlers uprooted the olive trees then took them away in trucks. He said that the operation was still ongoing in the morning hours.

Meanwhile, IOF troops stormed villages and mountains to the west of Al-Khalil city but no arrests or storming of citizens’ homes were reported.

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