Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich says 3,000 Palestinian olive trees uprooted in occupied West Bank to expand settlement, block Palestinian state.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich announced the uprooting of around 3,000 Palestinian trees, reportedly olive trees, from about 50 acres near the Shaked settlement in the northern occupied West Bank. He linked the action to settlement expansion and efforts to block the establishment of a Palestinian state.
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