Israeli settlers from Asfar and Bani Kadim settlements uprooted and stole 800 olive saplings in the Palestinian town of Shuyoukh east of Hebron in the West Bank on Sunday.

The head of the wall and settlement resistance committee in the town, Ahmad al-Halayqa, said in a press statement that the settlers stormed Palestinian lands in the Allowasli area’s eastern Shuyoukh and uprooted the saplings, adding that this is the fourth time that settlers have vandalized and uprooted olive saplings in the area in order to expand the settlement area east of the town.