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Safa, Hebron District: Settlers uproot 15 olive trees and torch agricultural structure

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Safa, Hebron District: Settlers uproot 15 olive trees and torch agricultural structure

On 5 November 2021, a village resident noticed settlers pouring liquid on an agricultural structure located on the farmland of Khalil Abu ‘Ayhur (33), a resident of Halhul. He called Abu ‘Ayhur, who arrived after about an hour and discovered that settlers had cut down 15 five-year-old olive trees and had set fire to the structure.

Israel’s regime of apartheid and occupation is inextricably bound up in human rights violations. B’Tselem strives to end this regime, as that is the only way forward to a future in which human rights, democracy, liberty and equality are ensured to all people, both Palestinian and Israeli, living between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea.