Settlers Cut Down 40 Olive Trees in Makhmas North of Jerusalem

SadaNews - Last night, settlers cut down approximately 40 olive trees in the town of Makhmas, north of occupied Jerusalem.

Local sources reported to the official agency that a number of settlers stormed the Khillat al-Sidra area in the town and cut down 40 olive trees.

It is noteworthy that the settlers recently established a colonial outpost near Makhmas, which is used as a gathering and planning point for repeated attacks against farmers and their lands, amidst escalating assaults and systematic targeting of the area.

According to the report by the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission for last November, settlers carried out 485 acts of vandalism and theft of Palestinian property, affecting vast areas of land, and they, with the help of the occupying army, uprooted, destroyed, and poisoned 1,986 trees, including 466 olive trees, in the governorates of Nablus (1,260 trees), Ramallah and Al-Bireh (381 trees), Salfit (135 trees), Hebron (100 trees), Qalqiliya (70 trees), and Jenin (40 trees).