Moataz Bisharat, who is responsible for monitoring the occupying regime’s settlement activity in the Jordan Valley, told Anadolu news agency that the regime’s army pushed military vehicles and dozens of troops into the Ainun area in Tubas city in the morning and destroyed a nature reserve built on an area of about 400 dunums (98 acres).
The Zionist regime’s army "chopped down and destroyed about 10,000 forest trees and about 300 olive trees,” he said.
Trees were planted in the nature reserve eight years ago as part of the Greening Palestine project supervised by the Palestinian Ministry of Agriculture and funded by the Venezuelan consulate in Palestine.
Bisharat stressed that the regime alleged that the destruction of the reserve came as it was classed as a military zone even though it was not more than 300 meters away from residential areas and it served as an "outlet” for residents.
Meanwhile, Zionist troops attacked Palestinians during another round of anti-settlement protests in the occupied West Bank on Friday.
The troops attacked participants in a weekly, peaceful protest in Kafr Qaddum, east of Qalqilya City.
Three young Palestinian men were hit by bullets fired by the Zionist troops during the clashes, which also saw the forces tear-gas the demonstrators, giving dozens of them breathing difficulties.
Palestinians take to the streets of the occupied West Bank every week to denounce the occupying regime’s settlement expansion policy.
More than 600,000 Zionists live in over 230 settlements built since the 1967 occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and East al-Quds.
Emboldened by the anti-Palestine policies of former U.S. president Donald Trump, the regime stepped up its settlement expansion in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolution 2334, which pronounces settlements in the West Bank and East al-Quds "a flagrant violation under international law.”
All settlements are illegal under international law as they are built on occupied Palestinian land.
No comments:
Post a Comment