SALFIT, Sunday, December 20, 2020 (WAFA) – Illegal colonial Israeli settlers uprooted today about 300 olive saplings belonging to Palestinian farmers in the village of Hares, near the town of Salfit in the occupied West Bank, according to local sources.

A group of settlers from the illegal Israeli settlement of Revava, nearby, raided a plot belonging to local Palestinian citizens, and uprooted some 300 olive saplings that were recently planted in the area.

Governor of Salfit, Abdullah Kmail, condemned the attack saying popular nonviolent resistance was key to curb ongoing attacks by Israeli settlers against defenseless Palestinian villagers and their property.

Settlers have escalated their attacks against Palestinians across the occupied West Bank during the past two weeks, taking advantage of the tolerance practiced by the Israeli military occupation authorities towards these attacks.

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