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Al Jazeera Staff

Israeli military uproots thousands of Palestinian olive trees in West Bank

The destruction took place in al-Mughayyir, a Palestinian village of about 4,000 residents near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank [File: Ammar Awad/Reuters]

The Israeli military has destroyed about 3,000 olive trees in a village near Ramallah in the occupied West Bank, the head of the local council says, as Palestinians face a continued wave of violence across the territory in the shadow of Israel’s war on Gaza.

The Israeli military issued an order to uproot olive trees in a 0.27sq-km (0.1sq-mile) area in al-Mughayyir, a village of about 4,000 residents northeast of Ramallah.

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