AT-TUWANI: Olive trees destroyed in the night.
January 23rd, 2008
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CPTnet
23 January 2008
AT-TUWANI: Olive trees destroyed in the night.
Sometime between the afternoon of 12 January and the morning of 14 January 2008, six olive trees in Khoruba Valley, belonging to a Palestinian villager from At-Tuwani, were seriously damaged.
The injured trees, about ten years old, are in the middle of a small grove. The owner noticed the damage when he came out to plow and plant the adjacent field on the morning of 14 January. Local Palestinians attribute the damage to neighboring Israeli settlers, who have engaged in continued harassment of Palestinian shepherds.
In the days preceding and following the incident, Israeli settlers and soldiers have threatened and harassed Palestinian shepherds grazing their flocks nearby. On Saturday, 12 January, a group of settlers from the settlement outpost, Hill 833, approached shepherds grazing their flocks and fired six shots in the air. The Palestinian shepherds and their flocks scattered. On 15 January, Israeli soldiers threatened to arrest Palestinian shepherds if they continued to graze their sheep in the adjacent valley.
Israeli settlers have previously damaged or destroyed olive trees belonging to Palestinian residents of At-Tuwani and neighboring villages, including destroying a grove of over one hundred trees in January of 2006. (See 10 January 2006 CPTnet release, "AT-TUWANI: One hundred and two olive trees cut down in the night.")
23 January 2008
AT-TUWANI: Olive trees destroyed in the night.
Sometime between the afternoon of 12 January and the morning of 14 January 2008, six olive trees in Khoruba Valley, belonging to a Palestinian villager from At-Tuwani, were seriously damaged.
The injured trees, about ten years old, are in the middle of a small grove. The owner noticed the damage when he came out to plow and plant the adjacent field on the morning of 14 January. Local Palestinians attribute the damage to neighboring Israeli settlers, who have engaged in continued harassment of Palestinian shepherds.
In the days preceding and following the incident, Israeli settlers and soldiers have threatened and harassed Palestinian shepherds grazing their flocks nearby. On Saturday, 12 January, a group of settlers from the settlement outpost, Hill 833, approached shepherds grazing their flocks and fired six shots in the air. The Palestinian shepherds and their flocks scattered. On 15 January, Israeli soldiers threatened to arrest Palestinian shepherds if they continued to graze their sheep in the adjacent valley.
Israeli settlers have previously damaged or destroyed olive trees belonging to Palestinian residents of At-Tuwani and neighboring villages, including destroying a grove of over one hundred trees in January of 2006. (See 10 January 2006 CPTnet release, "AT-TUWANI: One hundred and two olive trees cut down in the night.")