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SALFIT (Ma'an) -- Israeli authorities bulldozed around 500 olives trees near Salfit on Friday afternoon, locals told Ma'an.

Israeli authorities claimed the al-Daher area is state land, but Salfit residents Ahmad Theeb Alkam and Samir Al-Masri say they own the land.

Samir Al-Masri, who is also an engineer and director of the Cooperative Association for Agricultural Development in Salfit, said officials accompanied by soldiers uprooted over 300 olive trees on his land, razing ten dunams.

Ahmad Theeb Alkam, 87, said bulldozers leveled ten dunams of land, and uprooted 200 olive saplings, as well as rock walls built by his family.

Alkam said he inherited the land from his parents and has documents to prove it, stressing that he will not be moved from his land.