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Wednesday Oct. 13, 2010 10:44 AM (EST+7)
Olive groves in front line in struggle over land


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RAMALLAH, October 13 (JMCC) - As the olive harvest gets underway, Palestinians are finding their trees vandalized, and entire groves of olives picked clean.

“I have never seen olives stolen [from Palestinian groves] to this degree,” Rabbi Arik Ascherman, executive director of Rabbis for Human Rights, told the Jerusalem Post.

Villagers in Turmous Ayya found dozens of trees poisoned, their trunks drilled with a substance causing them to shrivel and die.

You work hard for years to tend the tree, like raising a child, and when you see it destroyed, the feeling cannot be described, Nahil Shalabi, a family member, said as she surveyed the damage. No one stops them, she added, referring to the vandals.


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