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Islamic militias affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood continue daily abuses in the occupied Kurdish region of Afrin, where they cut down and trade forests for their own benefit.
In this context, the Hawar News Agency reported that the Turkish occupation army and its gunmen, cut down another hundred olive trees belonging to the people of the village of Axcelê in the province of Afrin.
As part of a series of crimes and violations against the people and nature of Afrin, militants of the militia, “Ahrar al-Sharqiya” on Sunday, cut down another 100 olive trees belonging to the villagers of the village of Axcelê of Jindiris district in the province of Afrin, where the trees have been cut down are more than 70 years old.
Afrinpost correspondents have long reported that Islamic militia gunmen have cut olive trees. The militants have set up workshops, cutting down trees from the forests of Afrin and collecting firewood in fixed centers on the outskirts of villages.
The gunmen sell one ton of cypress and pine trees between 20 and 30 thousand Syrian pounds, and export large quantities to Turkey in order to convert them into coal.
The gunmen cut olive trees from some orchards belonging to the forcibly displaced from Afrin to the areas of Al-Shahba, northern Syria, despite the claim of the local council of the occupation to issue instructions not to cut trees or trade them, as it is known that the decisions of those councils apply to the indigenous Kurds only While the armed men or settlers do not weigh any weight on it.
