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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 ]
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]
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 ...
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 ...
Israeli settler attacks have surged at an unprecedented rate, according to the United Nations. ... “They were the ones always burning olive trees and creating problems,” al-Qaryoute said ...
For many West Bank Palestinians, the olive tree is both a revered cultural emblem and an economic necessity - but it has also become a focal point of a struggle between them and Israeli settlers ...
Palestinians had accused settlers of cutting down olive trees, [12] burning cars and shooting at Palestinian residents. Ten Palestinians and one Israeli were injured in a confrontation in the week before the attack, when Israeli soldiers were accused of using live fire to quell the clash. [13]
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 ...