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Sep 18, 2020 Sep 18, 2020Fifty olive trees were uprooted and additional 20 vandalized Friday in a suspected hate crime in the West Bank Palestinian village of As-Sawiya, near the settlement of Ariel.Ahmed Nasa'a, a Jaffa resident whose family is from As-Sawiya, told Haaretz that 30 trees had been uprooted from the plot his family owns. "I myself fenced the plot. When the police arrived I told them to take fingerprints from the fence, which was also vandalized, but they didn't."Nasa'a estimated the damage in some 60,000 shekels. The police are yet to respond to a Haaretz query on whether an investigation had been launched into the matter.Another 20 tress from other plots were severely defaced. As-Sawiya has seen its share of vandalism in the past, but residents say they have witnessed an increase in recent months. In June, and pro-Israel graffiti spray-painted on the walls of homes in the northern West Bank village.Security camera footage from the scene showed unidentified perpetrators puncturing car tires. Graffiti in Hebrew was also found on a wall, reading “Am Yisrael chai,” or "the people of Israel live," a phrase often used as a rallying cry for Israeli nationalists.“We got up this morning to discover that car tires in the neighborhood were damaged and that there was graffiti on the houses,” village resident Sami Halil told Haaretz at the time. “I checked my security camera and saw that whoever did this came close to the window where my children were sleeping.”Halil recalled the 2015 firebombing of a house in the West Bank Palestinian village of Duma, which killed three members of the Dawabsheh family, including an infant.On Monday, the main suspect in the case, Amiram Ben-Uliel, plus 17 years in prison for attempted murder and additional 10 years for arson. Two days later, an Israeli minor convicted with involvement in planning the 2015 torching was sentenced on Wednesday to in prison. Automatic approval of subscriber comments.From $1 for the first month

Sep 18, 2020 Sep 18, 2020Fifty olive trees were uprooted and additional 20 vandalized Friday in a suspected hate crime in the West Bank Palestinian village of As-Sawiya, near the settlement of Ariel.Ahmed Nasa'a, a Jaffa resident whose family is from As-Sawiya, told Haaretz that 30 trees had been uprooted from the plot his family owns. "I myself fenced the plot. When the police arrived I told them to take fingerprints from the fence, which was also vandalized, but they didn't."Nasa'a estimated the damage in some 60,000 shekels. The police are yet to respond to a Haaretz query on whether an...

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