Jewish settlers destroy olive trees in Al-Khalil

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - A group of Jewish settlers uprooted dozens of olive and almond trees and vineyards in Beit Ummar village to the north of Al-Khalil at dawn Saturday.Coordinator of the popular committee in the village Mohammed Ayyad told the PIC that the settlers sneaked into the Palestinian farmlands and destroyed the trees, owned by Salibi family.The settlers also wrote racist slogans calling for killing and expelling Palestinians in addition to other slogans such as “Price Tag”, he said.Ayyad said that other groups of settlers sprayed poisonous chemicals on trees owned by Awad and Salibi families south of the village, affirming that it was not the first such attack against the village and its cultivated land lots./129