Caught red-handed: Arabs caught chopping down their own olive trees (video evidence)
"Caught red-handed" - Volunteers from the Shomron
Settlers Council today (Monday) filmed Arabs and a foreign activist from the
extreme Left cutting down trunks of olive trees and branches next to the
settlement of Elon Moreh, to create a provocation.
As previously mentioned, just yesterday the Shomron
Settlers Council and the Shomron Regional Council came out with a request to
Shomron residents to put cameras in their vehicles in order to document
provocations by Arabs and extreme Leftist activists during the olive harvest
season.
Due to the increase during previous years in
provocations organized by extremist Leftist activists from Israel and from
abroad, as well as by Arabs of the area, in preparation for the olive harvest,
the Shomron Settlers Council, together with the Shomron Regional Council, have
organized a photography course for the residents and Council
volunteers.
And indeed, this afternoon, already in the first
days of the harvest season, two volunteers from the Shomron Settlers Council
caught "red-handed", some Arabs and another man who joined them, likely a
foreign Leftist activist, as they were cutting down trunks and branches of olive
trees adjacent to the settlement of Elon Moreh, just a short distance from the
town and close to homes.
The Arabs and the Leftist extremist were sawing
through the trunks and branches and leaving them near the cut off trunks in an
area near the settlement's homes, as well as in another location near the
entrance to Elon Moreh.
Council volunteers photographed them in the act and
called the police.
Chairman of the Shomron Settlers Council Benny
Katzover said: "Just yesterday we called on the public to equip themselves with
cameras in order to document provocations, and already today a provocation was
filmed, the act of uprooting olive trees in real time. It's clear to everyone
that if the alert volunteers had not recorded the provocation in real time, the
whole world would have shouted and condemned the settlers and the State of
Israel."
In the wake of the incident, Shomron Regional
Council head Gershon Mesika called for acting agressively against the ones
staging the uprooting of the olive trees and to distance the provocateurs of the
extreme Left from the area during the olive harvest season:
"The olive harvest season in recent years has
turned into the provocateur's season. In light of the extreme Left's
provocations during the olive harvest in past years, the settlement enterprise
has invested much effort, in coordination with the IDF, to prevent extreme
Leftist organizations and the Palestinian Authority from taking advantage of the
season to cause provocations and take other actions. I call on the Security
services to be alert, to understand that these are sequences of events whereby
most of them take place when activists from the extreme Left, both from Israel
and from abroad, are in the area. I call on the Security services to distance
from the area, the extreme Leftists planning these provocations and thus prevent
these incidents from happening and to allow the harvest season to finish
quietly."
The 'human rights' organizations are constantly blaming Israel for interfering with the 'Palestinian' olive harvest and chopping down trees.
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