Afrinpost – Special
With the increase demand for woods in light of the cold weather in the region, the militants of the Islamic militias affiliated with the Turkish occupation and the Muslim Brotherhood are waging a campaign against olive groves with the aim of cutting down trees and selling them as firewood, as they are making huge amounts of money for them.
In connection with this, the Afrinpost correspondent in Jenderes stated that the armed fighters of the “Waqas Brigade” militia have unjustly cut 400 olive trees in a field belonging to “Mustafa Muhammad Hassan Dalu”, one of the residents of the “Hekeje” village of Jenderes.
The Afrinpost obtained a video tape showing the damage caused to the targeted olive field belonging to “Mustafa Dalou”.
The “Afrinpost” reporter in the occupied center of Afrin, had said on January 8, that the “Ahrar al-Sharqiya militia” had cut down olive trees in a field located at the entrance to the city from Raju side, on the pretext that its ownership belonged to “self-management.”
The reporter confirmed that the militia militants have cut about forty olive trees so far, while the organized cutting continues in the field belonging to the “Barkhana” family of the Arab component, and they are from the village of Babliet, of Jenderes district, indicating that the field contains about 400 olive trees.
The correspondent added that the militia had taken control of the artesian well in the field, and had been investing in its favor for it since the territory came under Turkish occupation and its Islamic militia.
On the 2nd of December 2019, the Afrinpost reporter confirmed that the militia of the “Hamzah Brigade” militia had unjustly cut about two thousand olive trees, in a field located on the road to the village of Kafar Shilleh / KafrShill of the Afrin Center, owned by the absent citizen Hussein Hajji, a resident of the village of Alamdara of Raju district.
The militias are sending logs to firewood sales centers at the “new bridge” area in the city of Afrin to be sold there, as the price per ton of olive wood reached about 60,000 Syrian pounds (at the time), in light of the increased demand for it due to the unprecedented high cost of diesel. .
