Israeli settlers on Thursday uprooted 400 olive seedlings grown in Bethlehem’s southern town of al-Khader.
Coordinator for the popular anti-settlement committee Ahmad Salah said Israelis residing in the illegal Sidi Boez outpost stole 400 newly-planted olive trees from al-Shaaf area in al-Khader town.
The Palestinian land owner Ali Ahmad Issa was reportedly shocked as he caught sight of the theft.
According to Salah Palestinian lands in al-Khader town have increasingly come under the threat of such Israeli assaults and theft attempts.
A couple of weeks earlier Israeli settlers uprooted 450 olive and grape seedlings owned by the Palestinian farmer Mohamed Abdul Salam Saleh.
