Israeli forces prevent activists from Planting trees

The Israeli forces prevented Saturday anti-settlement activists from planting olive saplings in the villages located to the east of Yatta in Hebron district, according to a local official.The Israeli forces prevented activists from the Popular Campaign against the Wall and Settlements as well as the Palestinian Farmers Union from planting olive saplings in Sussiya and nearby areas, according to Jihad Nawajeh, head of the Sussiya local council.He told WAFA that even though the Israeli military has declared the area a close military zone to prevent farmers and land owners from reaching their land, the anti-settlement activists have succeeded in reaching the land after getting into a fist fight with the settlers who tried to force them out of the land.Nawajeh said they would continue to plant olive saplings in lands threatened for takeover by settlers, who regularly cut trees and steel the Palestinian land to expand their illegal settlements.