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Olive farming is a major industry and employer in the Palestinian West Bank and olive trees are a common target of settler violence. According to OCHA roughly 10,000 Palestinian West Bank olive trees and saplings have suffered either uprooting or damage from Israeli attacks in 2013, a rise from about 8,500 trees damaged in 2012. [ 73 ]
The OCHA report said around 600 mainly olive trees have been burnt, vandalised or stolen by settlers since the start of the harvest. It included a picture of a Palestinian man standing next to an ...
28 September 2011 – A grove of 45 olive trees uprooted near Hebron, apparently in reprisal for the death of a settler and his son. [38] 3 October 2011 – Burning of a mosque at the Bedouin town Tuba-Zangariyye in the North District of Israel. [39] 5 October 2011 – Settlers Uprooted 200 Olive Tree at Qusra, near Nablus. [40]
Olive tree in the village of Burin which was stated to be vandalized by settlers from Yitzhar. The price tag attack policy (Hebrew: מדיניות תג מחיר), also sometimes referred to as mutual responsibility (אחריות הדדית), [1] is the name originally [2] [3] given to the attacks and acts of vandalism committed primarily in the occupied West Bank by extremist Israeli settler ...
Charred homes and cars dotting this hilltop village surrounded by olive groves are a searing reminder of Palestinians' vulnerability to rising violence from Israeli settlers. It was one of nearly ...
In 2013, representatives of the nearby Palestinian village of Qaryut blamed Eli settlers for an alleged uprooting of more than 100 olive trees on their property. [13] In January 2014, an Eli resident claimed to have photographed Palestinians chopping down an olive tree which a later report on Ma'an news blamed 'settlers' for the incident. [14 ...
Hilltop Youth attack an elementary school in Mu'arrajat, near Jericho in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, 2024. The acts of settler violence includes vandalism of Palestinian schools and mosques, stealing sheep from Palestinian flocks and the destruction of their centuries-old olive groves, or stealing their olive harvests. [1]
In May 2010, a group of Israeli settlers torched "an 11-Dunam olive orchard in al-Rababa valley, in Silwan, south of the Old City of Jerusalem" which included the destruction of three olive trees that were over 300 years old. [107] In a 2011 New York Times article, these attacks were called "price tag" attacks. [108]