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HEBRON, July 19, 2012 (WAFA) – Jewish settlers Thursday uprooted olive and almond trees in an area in the town of Beit Ummar, north of Hebron, according to a local activist.

Spokesman of the National Committee against the Wall and settlement, Mohammed Awad, told WAFA that settlers from the nearby settlement of Beit Ain, built illegally on the town’s land, uprooted around 25 olive and almond trees belonging to 77-year-old Palestinian Hamad Salibi.

Salibi has lost more than 200 trees due to repeated settlers’ attacks on his land in addition to beatings and threats in an attempt to force him to abandon his land in order to seize it. Farming is Salibi’s only source of livelihood.

T.R./M.S.