Israeli occupation forces have uprooted 100 olive trees from Beit Egza village, northwest of occupied Jerusalem, and took them in trucks to an unknown destination.
Local sources charged the Israeli soldiers with stealing the decades old trees after claiming there was a decision to confiscate them.
They pointed out that the soldiers leveled the ground after uprooting the trees, some of which are more than one hundred years old.
They added that the soldiers have been bulldozing in the vicinity of the area for weeks, digging water wells and completing a wall around a nearby settlement that would tighten the noose around the village.
The sources reported clashes between the soldiers and young men from the village during the bulldozing that led to the detention of one of them and the injury of others.
