Jewish settlers cut down and uprooted hundreds of olive trees on Palestinian farms near the West Bank city of Nablus, said residents & Israeli police

Summary:

Israeli settlers continue to chop down the only livelihood of the local Palestinians – their olive trees.

Background: The Elon Moreh settlement, along with other West Bank settlements, are illegal according to Article 49 of the Fourth Geneva Convention. A more detailed description of the legal question is made by David Kretzmer, Prof of International Law, Jerusalem Hebrew University.

The settlers, of course, deny this, and claim the land is theirs by “divine right.”