Today, Thursday, Israeli settlers uprooted about 400 olive trees in the northern West Bank.

Ghassan Daghlas, the official who is responsible for the settlement file in the northern West Bank, reported that settlers uprooted about 400 olive trees (3 years old) from the lands of Deir Sharaf town, west of Nablus.

Daghlas indicated that the olive trees were uprooted from  "private Palestinian property which is located near the Shavei Shomron settlement."

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On its part, the Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs condemned the process of uprooting these trees, explaining that this scene "reoccurs daily within a clear division of roles between the settlers, their armed organizations, and the army, with the aim of stealing more of the citizens' lands and allocating them to deepen and expand settlements."

The Palestinian Foreign Ministry held the Israeli government fully and directly responsible for "these crimes".

It said the Israeli impunity and coexistence with the "low ceiling of international reactions, and the absence of international will to implement United Nations resolutions" encourage it to persist in "undermining the opportunity to resolve the conflict through peaceful, negotiated political means."

On May 8, Palestinian farmers in the town of Kafr Al-Dik, in the occupied West Bank governorate of Salfit, had their olive trees chopped off by Israeli settlers.

Witnesses told Palestine's WAFA news agency that a group of Israeli settlers chopped off nearly 30 olive trees belonging to local Palestinian citizens from the town of Kafr Al-Dik.

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