Overview

• AFP journalists documented several bulldozers uprooting hundreds of mostly olive trees on Aug 24 with Israeli military vehicles nearby.
• The Palestinian Prisoner’s Society reports 14 arrests over three days in al-Mughayyir, including the local council head and relatives of a previous victim.
• Local activists say troops stormed more than 30 homes, seized property, set up checkpoints that sealed all entrances, and blocked ambulances and journalists.
• The Israeli army said it is looking into the incidents and previously announced the arrest of a man from the village accused of responsibility for a nearby attack.
• Residents and local leaders contend the clearing prepares a settler road and aims to drive people off their land, set against a wider West Bank escalation since the Gaza war.