RAMALLAH,(Palestine Foundation Information Center ) The Israeli occupation forces (IOF) withdrew this morning, Sunday, from al-Mughayir village in the northeast of Ramallah after four days of tight siege and different violations.
According to local officials and media sources, Israeli forces carried our arrests, violent raids on homes, and thefts during their four-day campaign in the village. They also assaulted and terrorized family members, wreaked havoc on olive groves, and started building a settler road on swaths of Palestinian-owned land.
After the IOF withdrew from the village, local residents headed out to assess the damage, particularly the destruction that happened in olive groves, where hundreds of trees were reportedly uprooted and crushed.
Some villagers started in the morning to replant olive trees that had been uprooted by IOF bulldozers around their village.
Despite withdrawing from inside al-Mughayir, Israeli military vehicles and bulldozers are still being deployed around the village, where they are working to build a new settler road.
The aggressive IOF raid on the village followed claims by settlers living in a nearby illegal outpost that one of them had been injured by a Palestinian.
During its campaign in the village, the IOF had assaulted and interrogated many citizens, kidnaped 14 of them, and stole about 20,000 shekels, and damaged and seized 15 vehicles, according to deputy chief of the village council Marzouk Abu Na’im
