SALFIT (PIC)– Jewish settlers on Friday destroyed 100 very old olive trees amongst them olive trees that locals believe to have existed since Roman times between the villages of Jammain and Yasuf causing rage amongst the local population.
Local sources said that settlers from Taffouh settlement cut down olive trees in the Mafqa’a neighbourhood near Yasuf.
The sources said that one of the settlers of Taffouh who owns more than a hundred heads of sheep and who is known in the area as the shepherd of Taffouh is a constant source of aggression against olive trees in the area and he is thought to have incited other settlers to destroy those trees.
The sources said that the destruction of olive trees is part of the settlers’ plans to arrogate those lands after failing to stop the Palestinian farmers from tending their land.
