Thanks for the clarification in post #18.
Wow, this story is and has been bought for years by every (and I mean every) newspaper in the EUSSR.
Israeli papers report such stuff(Haaretz: olive tree chain saw massacre)
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They especially remember the thick-trunked olive trees with the dying branches. In each of those branches they found a few small precise holes - clear signs of a drill that someone maliciously used on the trees. Krinis says none of the holes are bigger than a centimeter in diameter and there were no bullets in the trees indicating the holes were from stray bullets. Branches of trees elsewhere in the grove, whose branches were not pierced, looked healthy. Kirnis has no doubt that the Palestinian villagers did not make up the story. He is convinced that settlers are the ones with the drills, and that they poured some kind of chemical into the holes to kill off the olive trees.
At the start of the harvest at beginning of winter, when Krinis went with members of Ta'ayush to help farmers in the south Hebron area, he learned up close that there are settlers for whom the commandment of occupation includes using such means as destroying the harvests of local farmers.
For the last three years, the settlers populating the collection of illegal outposts around the settlement of Eli have been making the lives of the people of Assawiyeh miserable. Particularly good at that are the residents of the mobile homes at a place known as Hirbat a-Shuna. Apparently, they have their eyes on the Assawiyeh spring, the historical source of water for the village, and the source of its irrigation water.
They poison some trees here, they saw off some branches there, say the villagers; at night they set the trees on fire and during the day they charge at villagers in their fields, driving them off at gunpoint, sometimes with shots.
Lately, the settlers have come up with a new method to burn trees. First they saw off some branches and then they hang tires from the stumps, and set them alight. The burning tires set the tree on fire. When the villagers see the smoke, they run out to try to stop the fire, but the tires meanwhile slip down and burn the entire tree.
In the first week of February a group of settlers equipped with chain saws showed up on the land of Yasser Salah and cut down 15 trees. A few days ago, a settler claiming to be a security officer, held a gun to Salah's head and ordered him and his wife off the land and never to come back.
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