Ahmad Jaradat
Jewish Nazi settlers damaged over 100 Palestinian-owned olive trees in the northern West Bank district of Nablus
The olive trees, owned by the Al Etyani family from the Nablus-area village of Yasuf, were damaged by Jewish Nazi settlers from the nearby Tapuah settlement.
Jewish Nazi Settlers further damaged 20 olive trees belonging to Mahmoud Abu Halema from the village of Borin, and an additional 15 Palestinian-owned olive trees in the village of Awarta, all located in the Nablus area.
Some 800,000 olive trees have been uprooted in the occupied West Bank since 1967, according to a joint report by the Palestinian Authority and the Applied Research Institute -Jerusalem.
Since 2002, the second year of the al Aqsa intifada, Palestinian farmers have explicitly requested international activists to join them during the yearly olive harvest, which began this week. The solidarity presence of activists serves to deter Jewish Nazi settler and military violence toward the farmers, and further supplies working hands during the busy month of harvest.
