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<h1 class="title">Israeli settlers steal Palestinian olive harvest
in Nablus area</h1>
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<div class="stamp">Nov. 1, 2017 - <font size="-2"><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=779421">http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=779421</a></font><br>
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NABLUS (Ma'an) -- Israeli settlers reportedly stole the harvest
of hundreds of Palestinian olive trees in the northern occupied
West Bank, local sources told Ma’an on Wednesday. </div>
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<div>Ghassan Daghlas, an official who monitors settlement activity
in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that Israeli settlers stole
olives off 280 trees on Palestinian lands near the illegal Israeli
settlement of Shave Shomron.<br>
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<div>Daghlas said that the lands belonged to Salim Daoud Abu Safat
(45 trees), Sabri Hamad Abu Safat (70 trees), Abd al-Jabbar Amin
Mustafa (60 trees), Fahmi Marie (50 trees) and Bashir Salim (55
trees).<br>
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<div>Several <a
href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=779402"
target="_blank">reports </a>of Israeli settlers stealing olive
pickings from Palestinian lands have emerged since the beginning
of the harvest season, with NGO Rabbis for Human Rights reporting
on a “massive wave” of thefts, which they described as “hate
crimes.”<br>
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<div>The Palestinian government has no jurisdiction over Israelis in
the West Bank, and acts carried out by Israeli settlers often
occur in the presence of Israeli military forces who rarely act to
protect Palestinian residents.</div>
<div>The majority of settler thefts committed against Palestinians
are met with impunity, with Israelis rarely facing consequences
for such thefts.<br>
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<div>Only 1.9 percent of complaints submitted by Palestinians
against Israeli settler attacks or theft result in a conviction,
while 95.6 percent of investigations of damage to olive trees are
closed due to failures of Israeli police, according to the Israeli
human rights group Yesh Din.<br>
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Yesh Din, along with Israeli rights group B’Tselem, have previously
<a href="http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=528317"
target="_blank">condemned Israeli authorities for failing to
protect Palestinians from settlers violence</a> or investigate
attacks, particularly during olive harvest season, when incidents of
attacks on harvesters and their olive groves have been a near daily
occurrence in past years.
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