Jenin: Israeli occupation forces on Monday rounded up 22 Palestinians, including elderly people, in search-and-arrest raids across the West Bank, the Palestinian Prisoners’ Club Society said.
According to Jordan News Agency, Jewish settlers, under the protection of Israeli troops, cut down dozens of olive trees in the village of Jalboun, east of Jenin, in the northern West Bank. The diehard settlers stormed the village from the southeast and began destroying and uprooting trees on land adjacent to the West Bank separation wall, said head of the local council, Ibrahim Abu al-Rub.
Abu al-Rub noted that an area of 130 dunums was targeted in the tree-cutting incident. He added that the Israeli army prevented local residents from accessing their property, further escalating tensions in the region.