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An olive tree belonging to Palestinians cut down by settlers in the West Bank. (Pavel Wohlberg)
Last update - 00:00 22/06/2007
Probe: W. Bank settlers uproot 300 Palestinian olive trees
By Yuval Azoulay, Haaretz Correspondent

A Civil Administration inquiry has found that residents of the West Bank settlement outpost of Adei Ad uprooted 300 olive trees belonging to Palestinian farmers about a week ago and replanted about half of them in the outpost, 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, although the regional council says the orchard had been worked by Jews for years.

"An investigation was carried out, and the Adei Ad residents' claim that the trees belong to them was refuted," the source said. "What they did was illegal."
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Haaretz has learned that the Civil Administration asked Adei Ad residents to replant the trees in their original locations. The Civil Administration source said Thursday that if this instruction is not carried out by next week, "the Civil Administration will do this itself."

Dozens of mature olive trees bearing signs of having been uprooted were planted in Adei Ad, located near the settlement of Shvut Rachel.

Pinchas Wallerstein, chair of the Benjamin Regional Council, said the trees are from an olive orchard that "has been worked for years by employees and relatives of the recently deceased Yossi Schoker." Since the orchard did not bear fruit this year, he said, it was decided to uproot and replant it.

"Residents of Adei Ad asked for and received permission to use the uprooted tree to landscape their community. Any other version is utter nonsense," said Wallerstein. "That orchard was worked by Jews for years. Olives from that orchard were in last year's Olive Festival with Civil Administration permission, and the military prohibited Palestinians from coming close to that land, because they knew that Jews worked it."
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  1.   olive trees 04:16  |  melchizedek 22/06/07
  2.   really 04:21  |  jake 22/06/07
  3.   Eyebrows up 04:24  |  JJ 22/06/07
  4.   Thou Shall Not Steal 04:25  |  R 22/06/07
  5.   What exactly do the settlers do for Israel? 04:53  |  Jason 22/06/07
  6.   # 3 R 05:45  |  Simon 22/06/07
  7.   pioneers 05:55  |  colin 22/06/07
  8.   GENESIS -34:30 look it up! 06:21  |  colman 22/06/07
  9.   Those pesky settlers 06:22  |  Sarit 22/06/07
  10.   The Most Moral Nation on Earth (west bank chapter) 06:38  |  Natallie Durson 22/06/07
  11.   The icing on this very sour cake 06:54  |  Johnboy 22/06/07
  12.   Smells like slander 07:36  |  Moshe 22/06/07
  13.   Settlements and uprooting....... 07:40  |  Esther 22/06/07
  14.   Re Jason #4 07:46  |  Esther 22/06/07
  15.   for wonderers: israel is a colony of settlers? 08:27  |  arab 22/06/07
  16.   More than olives trees 08:43  |  Abucrispi 22/06/07
  17.   If true ,this is terrible but why don`t I ever see 08:52  |  Zev 22/06/07
  18.   Settlers uproot peace chances 08:55  |  David 22/06/07
  19.   What do you expect? 09:01  |  Antonio 22/06/07
  20.   Lefties found a new Golden Calf,the Holy Pal Olive Trees 09:34  |  Absolute Sweden 22/06/07
  21.   Two sides to every story 09:41  |  Eric 22/06/07
  22.   To Jason, Esther and all anti-Zionists... 09:41  |  GrossedOut 22/06/07
  23.   Moshe, Zev and Antonio 10:10  |  Burkhardt 22/06/07
  24.   It`s not Stealing! It`s zionism 10:23  |  Cham de Frey 22/06/07
  25.   STOP palestinians HOLLOCAUST 10:27  |  tabash 22/06/07
  26.   What a pity do we not live in biblical times. 10:47  |  Andreas 22/06/07
  27.   Why are no arrests made? 11:01  |  Zev 22/06/07
  28.   This is a biased report - If Pals had done this.. 11:18  |  Don Camillo 22/06/07
  29.   #17 Absolute Sweden 11:18  |  Johnboy 22/06/07
  30.   Shaking in my boots Tabash no.25!!! 11:28  |  Jacob Ben-Isaac 22/06/07
  31.   #21 Eric you talk of justice? Since when have settlers cared? 11:29  |  Don Camillo 22/06/07
  32.   Interesting no posts from the usual nationalist jeerers and abuse 11:31  |  Don Camillo 22/06/07
  33.   If this is true it`s outrageous. 11:41  |  sg 22/06/07
  34.   There is a dispute regarding the true owner of the trees, so why 12:16  |  Tess 22/06/07
  35.   Tabash and his muslim "brothers" 12:49  |  Senex 22/06/07
  36.   Olmert is to the settlers 13:01  |  Yonatan 22/06/07
  37.   Olive trees 13:08  |  AK 22/06/07
  38.   interesting picture 13:22  |  Zev 22/06/07
  39.   a young tree 13:25  |  justice 22/06/07
  40.   #34 Tess tries the usual zionist line: "do nothing!" 13:30  |  Johnboy 22/06/07
  41.   For Don Camillo #42 13:47  |  Esther 22/06/07
  42.   #40 Johnboy - why do you use the term"Zionist" 13:58  |  Yonatan 22/06/07
  43.   This is called journalism? 14:51  |  Smearnov 22/06/07
  44.   #42 Nice try, Yonatan 15:11  |  Johnboy 22/06/07
  45.   SETTLERS = ENEMIES OF LIFE.... ANY LIFE 15:12  |  Patriot 22/06/07
  46.   #43 Smearnov **SHAKES** with **RAGE** 15:19  |  Johnboy 22/06/07
  47.   #42 it is the act of vandalism not the label 15:27  |  Don Camillo 22/06/07
  48.   #42, Yonathan 15:29  |  Burkhardt 22/06/07
  49.   wow.. land 15:33  |  sam i am 22/06/07
  50.   A picture worth a thousand words 15:37  |  Ethan 22/06/07
  51.   To #45...Settlers are on the front lines of Arab terror...support 15:53  |  GrossedOut 22/06/07
  52.   That`s not an olive tree in the picture! 16:05  |  Polybios 22/06/07
  53.   A picture worth a thousand words #50 16:24  |  Jo Jo 22/06/07
  54.   It appears that the only punishment 16:57  |  Mark Lincoln 22/06/07
  55.   #18 David, Who`s Land? 17:02  |  Reality Check 22/06/07
  56.   Then you have a short memeory, Gross 18:00  |  David McC 22/06/07
  57.   Israel Is Not A Stable Democracy 19:30  |  YesWeHaveNoBananas 22/06/07
  58.   # 51 They probably 02:41  |  melchizedek 23/06/07
  59.   You people still fighting over olive trees 04:22  |  M. Segal 23/06/07
  60.   same old 16:03  |  edgar 23/06/07
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