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Story summary
- Israeli military bulldozers uprooted olive trees in Deir Nizam, West Bank, days before the harvest.
- Abd Alfattah Tamimi said bulldozers smashed tree tops and ripped roots from his nearly nine acres of groves.
- The Palestinian Authority’s Colonization and Wall Resistance Commission said August attacks damaged 21,508 trees, including 19,375 olive trees.
- Palestinian human-rights groups said the destruction deprives farmers of income and severs a symbolic link to the land.