An-Najah News -  According to a municipal source Israeli military bulldozers today uprooted scores of perennial olive trees from farmlands belonging to Husan village in Bethlehem.

 Israeli forces uprooted scores of olive trees from Khirbet Hammuda, an olive grove located to the west of the village, leveled the three-donum grove, and tore down a shack and retaining walls said the  Head of Husan Village Council, Mohammad Sabatin.

The grove was leveled purportedly for being located “under Israeli sovereignty”, where Palestinian farmers are banned access.

Israel demolishes Palestinian houses and structures almost on a daily basis as a means to achieve “demographic control” of the occupied territories.