JORDAN VALLEY, April 29, 2018 (WAFA) – Israeli army bulldozers uprooted on Sunday scores of olive trees and leveled lands in the village of Bardala, in the Jordan Valley region in the West Bank, according to local sources.

Aref Daraghmeh, a local rights activist, told WAFA that Israeli army bulldozers broke into the village and embarked on uprooting olive trees planted by Palestinians and international activists to make up for trees uprooted by Israeli bulldozers last week.

Last week, army uprooted 320 olive trees belonging to a Palestinian citizen from the village.

The Jordan Valley makes up 33% of the occupied West Bank, with 88 percent of its land classified as Area C – under full Israeli military control.

Demolitions of Palestinian infrastructure and uprooting of trees by Israeli army and settlers occur frequently in Area C, with the Jordan Valley’s Bedouin and herding communities being particularly vulnerable to such policies.

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