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Israeli settlers are on the rampage. Their latest vandalism is the destruction of 400 olive trees in the village of Turmus Aya, northeast of Ramallah West Bank.
Sources say settlers from the settlement of ‘Adi Ad’ which was established on the lands of the village came down to its groves, Saturday night, and proceeded to fell the trees.
The attack came days after the settlers set fire to a house and a car in the village as part of an increase in attacks against the people and property of the village according to a media report.
According to the Palestinian Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Israeli forces and settlers, who are also referred to as colonists, carried out 1,819 attacks last March, according to Palestinian news agency Wafa. It added this is part of a systematic campaign in a systematic campaign targeting Palestinian people, land, and property.
The Israeli occupation continues to uproot olive trees in different Palestinian villages, towns and cities with no apparent reason and employing bulldozers if the acts are carried out by the Israeli army to make sure the trees no longer exist.
As well as Turmus Aya, there has been an increase of uprooting of trees in Nablus, Burqa village and Jenin.
According to the Palestinian commission the Israeli army is responsible for 1,322 of these attacks, while settlers carried out 497 acts of vandalism, adding Hebron topped the attacks at 321, Nablus 315, Ramallah and Al-Bireh 292, and Jerusalem 203.
