Zionist settlers cut down about 400 olive trees near Ramallah

RAMALLAH, April 26 (YPA) – Zionist settlers cut down hundreds of olive trees overnight in an agricultural land near the town of Turmus Ayya, northeast of Ramallah.

Palestinian sources reported that a group of Zionist settlers from the nearby outpost of Adi Ad carried out the attack, vandalizing and uprooting approximately 400 olive trees in the town’s plains.

In recent days, settlers also set fire to a house and a vehicle in the same town, according to local accounts.

According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, Israeli forces and colonists carried out a total of 1,819 attacks during March, in a systematic campaign targeting Palestinian people, land, and property.

The commission stated that Israeli forces were responsible for 1,322 of these attacks, while settlers carried out 497. It added that the highest concentration of incidents occurred in the governorates of Hebron with 321 attacks, Nablus with 315, Ramallah and Al-Bireh with 292, and Jerusalem with 203, indicating a sustained focus on these areas.

@E.Y.M