17 July 2012 - 19:30

Israeli troops and civil servants stormed Tuesday morning Qasra village south of Nablus city and uprooted and confiscated all olive trees from a Palestinian land.

(Ahlul Bayt News Agency) - Head of Qasra municipal council Abdul-Azim Wadi told that employees from the Israeli district of planning and building escorted by a large number of troops uprooted and confiscated about 30 olive trees from a plantation owned by a Palestinian citizen named Shahadeh Odeh.Wadi added that the Israeli employees claimed they took the olive trees because the area belongs to the Israeli state.He affirmed that this Israeli claim was unfounded because this land had been cultivated for more than 20 years and used by its owners since then for producing olive./129