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PARC
expresses its strong condemnation and resentment of the attack
committed last night on the hands of the Jewish settlers of Elon
More against olive groves belonging to
Salem village in
the north of the
West
Bank.
In
their continued and repeated attacks against the people and property
of Salem, a number of Jewish settlers from Elon More settlement near
Nablus uprooted at
least 300 olive trees owned by the families of
Salem from which they make a living. Jewish settlers have been
attacking the people and property of Salem for the past weeks under
the eyes and with the full protection of the Israeli police. A
village source said that this series of attacks started when the
settlers established an outpost on the lands of Salem for the
purpose of expanding the Elon More settlement.
In
reaction to this incident, PARC appealed to the Palestinian
institutions, diplomatic missions, friends of the Palestinian people
to support by all possible means the steadfastness and just struggle
of the people of this village against settlers’ attempts to evacuate
them from their ancestors’ lands. Furthermore, PARC warns of the
escalation and further attacks by the Jewish settlers against the
Palestinian people in the course of the transitional period that
Israel undergoes before the parliamentarian elections are held.
PARC
calls on you all to join the peaceful vigil that will be organized
at the site of the destroyed olive groves on Friday, December 2.
Salem
is located 6 km to the east of Nablus City with a population of
5000. One fourth of its lands were confiscated for the extension
purposes of Elon More settlement. Recently, settlers from this
settlement started an outpost in Al-Luhhaf area that belongs to
Salem.
Since then, the village was targeted by settlers’ attacks and
sabotage acts such as burning down more than 350 olive trees a few
weeks ago.
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