RAMALLAH, August 22, 2025 (WAFA) – The Israeli occupation authorities on Friday issued a military order to uproot hundreds of trees from the lands of Al-Mughayyir village, northeast of Ramallah, under what they claimed were security reasons.

The order stipulates that the removal of trees from three areas of the village, covering an estimated 297 dunums, was taken “for purely urgent military purposes and for the defense of human life.”

According to the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, the decision targets all trees listed in the military order, on the grounds that their presence poses a security threat to the colonial Alon road, which cuts through the lands of Al-Mughayyir.

Amir Daoud, Director of Documentation and Publication at the Commission, explained that most of the targeted lands lie to the west of the road, with the remainder to its east.

He stressed that the order falls within Israel's efforts to empty all lands and areas located east of the settlement road, noting that the decision, in its current form, does not entail confiscation of land from the village.

Since Thursday, Israeli forces have been carrying out a wide-scale raid in Al-Mughayyir, uprooting hundreds of trees and bulldozing vast agricultural areas surrounding the colonial Alon road.

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