BETHLEHEM, July 14, 2025 (WAFA) – Israeli colonists set up tents and uprooted hundreds of olive saplings on lands belonging to the village of Al-Minya, southeast of Bethlehem.
Zayed Kawazba, head of the al-Minya village council, told WAFA that a group of colonists stormed the Al-Qarn area in the center of the village, where they set up four tents and uprooted approximately 1,500 olive saplings belonging to families from the Al-Motawer and Jabarin clans.
In the first half of 2025 alone, colonists have established 23 new outposts, mostly agricultural in nature, with full protection and backing from the Israeli military. The move is seen as part of a broader, systematic effort to establish new outposts and forcibly displace Palestinians from their lands.
During the same period, colonists carried out 2,153 recorded attacks, resulting in the killing of four Palestinians. Such attacks have included home burnings, armed raids on villages, land confiscations, road sabotage, and large-scale colonist invasions — particularly in villages like Kafr Malik, al-Mughayyer, Beita, and Sinjil.
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