Opposition factions uproot 500 olive trees in Syria’s Afrin
QAMISHLI, Syria (North Press) – Turkish-backed armed opposition factions cut down nearly 500 olive trees in the countryside of Afrin, north Syria, the Human Rights Organization-Afrin said on Wednesday.
The opposition factions cut down 300 olive trees in the village of Kabashin in the Sherawa district of Afrin countryside, local sources in Afrin said.
The trees that were cut down were of one of the villagers who was displaced and now living in the areas of displacement in the Shahba area, in Aleppo northern countryside, the sources added.
To trade in their firewood, the militants of the pro-Turkish Samarkand faction also uprooted 170 ancient olive trees plus 16 walnut trees in the village of Ramdana in Sheikh al-Hadid district, according to the same sources.
Those trees are of the two displaced brothers, Jalal Muhammad Sido and Abdulkarim Sido, from the village of Ramdana.
The Turkish-backed faction cuts down olive trees with the onset of winter season for sake of trading and selling the wood in the market.
The city of Afrin and its villages, north of Aleppo, have been controlled by Turkish forces and the affiliated factions since March 2018.
The Afrin region has been witnessing cases of killing, kidnapping and arrest, in addition to frequent bombings, amid the inability of the factions controlling it to settle the security in the region.