After the occupation of Afrin thousands of olive trees have been cut down by
...which are usually entirely different from personal
liberty...
reports.
Most people in Afrin made their living through olives and olive oil, but SNA factions keep targeting their trees, ignoring the fact that these trees are the only source of income for those people.
Since the beginning of December 2022,
Militants of a
Members of Ahrar al-Sharqiya faction cut down 37 olive trees from two neighboring fields located on the outskirts of the occupied city of Afrin.
Militants of Sultan Murad faction cut down about 60 olive trees belonging to Ramzi Omar, and 140 olive trees belonging Muhammad Khalil and Muhammad Ali Haj Hanan, residents from the village of Mareskeh in the district of Sharan, and sold them as firewood for between 100 to 135 US dollars per one ton.
Although the trees’ owners filed a complaint with a rights and restitution committee; however, the committee has not taken any action regarding the ongoing tree logging, according to an eyewitness from the village.
Members of Sultan Murad faction also cut down about 60 olive trees belonging to Ahmad Hamdoush from the village of Kafr Janneh, as well as they cut about 70 olive trees belonging to Sheikh Musa resident of the village of Qastal Kishk, according to eyewitnesses from the villages.
Militants of the Sultan Malik Shah Division cut down about 35 olive trees belonging to Hassan Gawish from his field near the village of Baarava, overlooking Maydanki Lake.
In November 2022, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) documented 17 incidents in which SNA factions chopped down more than 2.224 olive trees in several areas in villages and districts of Afrin.
The city of Afrin and its countryside has been under the control of
...the occupiers of Greek Asia Minor...and its affiliated SNA factions since March 2018 following the military operation "Olive Branch".
The operation caused the displacement of more than 300.000 of the original inhabitants of Afrin, who have been taking shelter in 40 villages and five camps in Shahba region in Aleppo northern countryside since then.