Israeli military today uprooted dozens of olive trees in Wadi Fukin village, west of Bethlehem city, according to a local activist.
Hassan Breija, an anti-wall and colonial settlements activist, said that Israeli forces escorted bulldozers to the main entrance of the village, where the heavy machineries leveled a 3-donum olive grove and destroyed 50 trees belonging to Halima Ad-Dibs, a local farmer.
Soldiers in the oxymoronically named Civil Administration determine where Palestinians may live, where and when they may travel (including to other parts of the occupied territories like Gaza and East Jerusalem), whether they can build or expand homes on their own land, whether they own that land at all, whether an Israeli settler can takeover that land among others.
There are over 700,000 Israeli settlers living in colonial settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem in violation of international law.
Source: Palestinian News & Info Agency