The Israeli civil administration Sunday threatened to uproot around 70 full-grown olive trees belonging to a Palestinian farmer in Khirbet al-Humma in the northern Jordan Valley under the pretext the land is an ‘archaeological site.
Local activist Mutaz Besharat who monitors settlement activity in the Tubas area said staff from the Israeli civil administration handed the land owner a notice notifying him of their intentions to uproot around 70 olive trees.
The trees reportedly belong to Palestinian citizen Najeeb Faqha.
