Settlers Vandalize Farmland and Uproot Trees in Sinjil
Settlers attack agricultural land in the town of Sinjil north of Ramallah, vandalizing fencing and gates amid a surge in attacks on farmers and their land.
Settlers attacked agricultural land in the town of Sinjil, north of Ramallah, on Tuesday, vandalizing it and destroying the fencing and gates surrounding it, in a fresh assault targeting residents’ land and agricultural property.
Local sources said a group of settlers attacked the Ghuraba area west of the town, vandalized agricultural land belonging to resident Marwan Abdel Haq, and cut down and destroyed the fencing and gates around it.
They added that the settlers had previously uprooted dozens of trees from an adjacent plot belonging to the same farmer, noting that they infiltrate the town from a settlement outpost established on its land about a year ago, carry out near-daily attacks and obstruct residents’ access to their land.
The attack comes amid an escalation in assaults by settlers and occupation forces on farmers and agricultural land in the West Bank, particularly during the olive harvest season.
In this context, the Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission documented 674 attacks carried out by occupation forces and settlers against olive trees and farmers in the West Bank, including occupied Jerusalem, over 37 days, from the first of October until the sixth of November.
The commission explained that settlers carried out 520 attacks, while the occupation army carried out 154, noting that the Ramallah and al-Bireh governorate recorded 130 attacks, placing it second after the Nablus governorate, which topped the list with 230 attacks.
The attacks ranged from assaulting olive pickers and beating them, preventing them from reaching their land, firing bullets and gas bombs at them, stealing crops and agricultural equipment, and breaking and uprooting trees, to burning land and agricultural property.
