A horde of Jewish settlers on Sunday evening uprooted dozens of olive saplings belonging to a Palestinian farmer from al-Mughayir village in eastern Ramallah north of the occupied West Bank.
According to local sources settlers from the illegal settlement of Adei Ad infiltrated into an agricultural area near Mughayir village and uprooted and stole 200 olive saplings on a plot of land belonging to farmer Hussein Abu Alya.
In an attempt to hide their crime the settlers plowed the land the sources said.
During the past three days about 780 trees in Palestinian olive groves and vineyards in al-Khader town south of Bethlehem were destroyed or uprooted by Jewish settlers.
