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Our sources in Afrin confirm the continuous violations against olive trees, as they are ruthlessly cut for timber trade and their trunks uprooted for sale.
Two days ago, an IDP from Eastern Ghouta residing along the Tirinde road used excavator machinery to uproot olive tree trunks from fields owned by Kurdish citizens “Nuri Najjar and Heydar Sheikh Hassan.” This follows a prior incident of unjust cutting and logging in the field behind Al-Ashrafieh neighborhood.
In the latest tree-cutting incidents, unidentified individuals on December 11 cut 15 pomegranate trees in the village of Ain Dara near the archaeological mound, owned by citizen “Mohammed Jumaa.”
Moreover, on December 7, armed individuals cut 75 trees owned by citizen “Ahmad Omar” from the village of Tal Hamo, claiming they were state property (affiliated with agricultural reform trees). The cut trunks were then transported to the new bridge road for sale.
