300 olive trees replanted at outpost

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"Residents of the West Bank settlement outpost of Adei Ad uprooted 300 olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers about a week ago, according to a source in the Civil Administration.

The source said the settlers planted some of the uprooted trees along the outpost's access road and some inside the community. But the regional council claims the orchard had been worked by Jews for years.

A Civil Administration probe over the past few days found that the olive trees were uprooted from land belonging to Palestinian residents of the village of Kriot. Civil Administration staffers found that at least half the missing trees had been replanted in the outpost.

Haaretz has learned that the Civil Administration asked Adei Ad residents to replant the trees in their original locations. The Civil Administration source said yesterday that if this instruction is not carried out by next week, "the Civil Administration will do this itself."

"An investigation was carried out, and the Adei Ad residents' claim that the trees belong to them was refuted," the source added. "What they did was illegal."

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/873806.html

subverting any possibility of peace.

their exit from the west bank is a historical inevitability.

I'd like to hear of the outcome of the order to replant the stolen trees.

Don't understand. This seems pretty cut and dried. Settlers violated the law, the courts ruled against them. I've seen a lot of statements by those on all sides who agree that many of the Settlers are jerks and considered a PITA by most of Israeli society. The fact this article was ignored means it was pretty much ignored by all.

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