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Israel/Palestine

R. Daneel Olivaw

(12,606 posts) Fri Mar 28, 2014, 11:40 PM Mar 2014

Settlers cut down 50 olive trees near Nablus

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=685271

NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers cut down more than 50 olive trees in Huwwara village south of Nablus in the northern West Bank on Thursday, a Palestinian official said.

Ghassan Daghlas, a Palestinian Authority official who monitors settlement-related activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma'an that "a number of settlers from Yitzhar settlement chopped down more than 50 olive trees in al-Naqara area north of the village."

Daghlas pointed out that the trees belong to Ahmad Odeh and Ghazi Al-Mukhtar.

He added that more than 5,700 trees have been cut down by settlers in the West Bank since the beginning of this year.

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