Israeli forces uproot dozens of fruit trees in northern West Bank

Israeli forces have uprooted dozens of fruit trees and leveled Palestinian land west of Nablus city in the northern occupied West Bank district of Tulkarem.

Tareq Hazzaa, the owner of the land, told Ma’an on Tuesday that a bulldozer escorted by Israeli Civil Administration forces razed more than 50 fig and lemon trees that were bearing fruit, and was told the works were undertaken to expand the main Nablus-Tulkarem road near the Beit Lid crossroads and to create a roundabout in the area.

Hazzaa said that about two dunams (0.5 acres) were leveled out of his four-dunam piece of land.