Israeli occupation forces uproot 50 olive trees in Bethlehem

Israeli occupation forces yesterday uprooted olive trees in the Wad Rahal village, south of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem.

The Bethlehem coordinator of a Palestinian committee against settlements and the Separation Wall, Hassan Breija, said that an Israeli force supported by two bulldozers stormed the Khilt Nahla area and started to uproot olive trees. The trees belong to Palestinian Ibrahim Abdah.

Breija added that Israeli forces re still in the area razing land in order to annex it and add it to the illegal settlement of Efrat.

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