BETHLEHEM, Monday, March 16, 2020 (WAFA) - Israeli settlers today uprooted a number of vine tress in the village of Khirbet Beit Iskariya, located in the middle of the illegal Gush Etzion settlement bloc to the south of the occupied West Bank city of Bethlehem, said local sources.

Hassan Breijieh, from the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission, told WAFA that settlers uprooted about 50 trees in the village.

Over the past three weeks, Israeli settlers, often operating under Israeli army protection, have uprooted about 1200 olive and vine trees in al-Khader town and nearby village of Wadi Fukin in the Bethlehem district.

M.K.