On Monday, Israeli soldiers invaded Barta’a town, northwest of Jenin in the occupied West Bank’s northern part, before bulldozing and uprooting Palestinian lands.
Ghassan Kabaha, the mayor of Barta’a, stated that Israeli bulldozers uprooted and leveled approximately 20 Dunams of citizens’ lands in the area adjacent to the illegal Annexation Wall, built on the town’s lands, and separating the farmers from their orchards and farmlands.
With the escalation of Israeli measures, violations, and attacks by Israeli soldiers and paramilitary colonizers, the Ministry of Agriculture expects that farmers will be unable to access 80,000 dunams of olive-planted land, potentially resulting in a loss of about 15% of the production.
The productivity of trees behind the Annexation Wall is already low due to the inability of their owners to tend to them throughout the year, due to military restrictions and violations by the paramilitary colonizers.
