Zionist settlers uproot 5700 olive trees

Zionistsettlers chopped down more than 50 olive trees in Hawara village, south of Nablus, bringing the number of trees destroyed by them since the beginning of 2014 to 5,700.

Ghassan Daghlas, in charge of monitoring settlement activity north of the West Bank, said that the settlers came from Yitzhar settlement and cut down big olive trees in the village.

He said that the 50 trees belonged to two citizens and were located to the north of Hawara village.

Daghlass said that Zionist settlers chopped down more than 5,700 olive trees in the West Bank since the start of 2014.