Winter looms and logs prices hiking | Turkish-backed factions cut down more olive trees and forests in Afrin

Aleppo province: SOHR activists have reported growing lands’ violation and sabotage while winter is looming, in addition to hiking prices of fuels especially logs.

On the other hand, Jaish al-Nukhba faction which control Shikhorza village in Bulbul district has chopped 120 olive trees for the purpose of selling, although these trees are owned by a displaced civilian from Shikhorza village in Afrin countryside.

In Satia village in Ma’batly district, members of the Turkish-backed-al-Hamza Division have cut down Heragia forests located between Kazeh and Satia villages then sold them in Idlib and Afrin markets.

A Ton of logs is sold for nearly 120 USD, and the logs are transported from Afrin to Idlib due to high demand.

On October3, SOHR activists confirmed that Liwaa al-Samarqand seized nearly 3,200 olive trees in Kafr Safra village in Jendires district under the pretext that the owner of the olive field was living outside Afrin and that the farmland belonged to the state. The Turkish-backed faction also prevented representatives authorized by the land’s owner from harvesting the olive crops.

It is worth noting that the members of Liwaa al-Samarqand seized over 36,000 fruit-bearing trees in Kafr Safra village since Turkish forces and their proxy factions captured Afrin canton in March 2018.