Afrinpost – Special
Settlers and militants affiliated with the Turkish occupation continue to carry out large-scale looting, robbery and theft of the olive harvest throughout the occupied Afrin region in northern Syria, within the framework of the policies of impoverishment and humiliation established by Ankara, with the aim of displacing the remaining indigenous people in the Kurdish region.
In the context, a peasant in the village of Qibariyeh / Arsh Qibar told the Afrinpost correspondent in the district center that the settlers have largely destroyed the olive harvest in the fields belonging to the people of the village, with the exception of the seizure operations carried out by the militia “Al-Mutasim and Failaq Rahman” against the fields of the displaced people .
The Kurdish farmer added that some of the people decided to guard their fields to protect what was left of their crops. However, thieves carry out thefts at night or take advantage of the absences of the owners of the fields when they are absent for hours only to spend breaks in their homes, saying: “Once we are absent for hours from guarding the olive fields … Thieves attack and destroy the crop, as if they are watching us! In an indication that the thieves are settlers and gunmen who occupy the homes of the displaced in the village.
He pointed out that the thieving settlers cause great damage to the trees, as they break the branches to facilitate the harvesting process and speed it up, and leave only those grains that fall on the ground from the fruits, stressing that the condition of his village is like all the villages of Afrin in terms of the thefts that affect the current season.
The thefts began in this season, on a large scale and before the crop ripened, to deprive the Kurdish citizens of their seasons, as it is known that they start picking olives after the rains in late autumn, and work continues for about two months.
