RAMALLAH, (Palestine Foundation Information Center), Extremist Jewish settlers wreaked havoc on nearly 400 old-growth olive trees in the plain of Turmus Ayya, north of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, on Tuesday.
The destroyed olive trees belonged to Palestinian farmers and had long served as a vital source of livelihood for their families, making the losses severely damaging to their daily lives.
Turmus Ayya has faced repeated settler attacks. Late last year, hundreds of dunums belonging to the Abu Awad family were bulldozed and olive trees were uprooted to make way for settlement expansion.
A year ago, settlers established a new illegal outpost on a swath of land in Turmus Ayya.
The town has endured repeated settler assaults, the most violent occurred in June 2024 when 27‑year‑old Omar Qattin was killed and several others were wounded during a settler attack.
At that time, those settlers also vandalized and burned 60 vehicles and around 30 homes in addition to torching dozens of dunums of agricultural land in Turmus Ayya.
