Palestinian Olive Trees Uprooted by Israelis

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00:00This elderly Palestinian woman could not bear to watch Israeli bulldozers advance into her land,

00:22uprooting the olive trees she had planted. She wept and mourned in anguish.

00:30This elderly woman also stood in shock in the middle of her land when she saw the olive trees uprooted from her field.

00:42Here in the town of Karyut, south of Nablus, in the West Bank, Israeli machinery uprooted more than 700 olive trees from the town's lands.

01:07The town, which once covered 22,000 dunams, has been reduced to just 1,200 dunams, now surrounded by seven settlement outposts and communities.

01:20The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission says Israel has seized more than 70,000 dunams,

01:25from the lands of the villages of Karyut,

01:30al-Luban al-Sharqiyya, and al-Sawiyya in Nablus,

01:33citing security and military reasons.

01:35The Wall and Settlement Resistance Commission says Israel has seized more than 70,000 dunams from the lands of the villages of Karyut,

01:53al-Luban al-Sharqiyya, and al-Sawiyya in Nablus,

01:57citing security and military reasons, according to Israeli claims.