Israeli settlers on Friday chopped off Palestinian-owned olive trees in Umm Safa village northwest of Ramallah City.
Head of Umm Safa’s village council Marwan al-Sabbah said that a group of Israeli settlers destroyed six olive trees owned by the brothers Ayman and Akram Tanatra.
Al-Sabbah said that the village has been subjected to regular attacks by Israeli settlers and soldiers calling on concerned international and local organizations to support the Palestinian farmers of Umm Safa by all possible means.
He noted that the Israeli authorities have threatened to confiscate 200 dunums of the village’s land to expand the illegal settlement of Halamish.
