Mercenaries plunder olive harvest in Afrin

With the start of the olive harvest season in occupied Afrin, and since Turkey's occupation of the region in March 2018, the olives of Afrin people are being stolen and looted at the hands of the occupation's mercenaries.

In crimes recurred, sources reported to the Human Rights Organization Afrin - Syria that the mercenaries of al-Hamzat Division of the Turkish occupation stole the olive harvest belonging to the 78-year-old Akash Dawood from Bikeh village in Bulbul district.

According to the source, the number of trees whose crops have been stolen is more than 90 trees.

In a relevant context, the so-called Sultan Morad faction's mercenaries affiliated with the Turkish occupation harvested the olive harvest belonging to Rashid Ibrahim from Ali Jarah village, while the number of trees whose crops have been plundered by the mercenaries reached more than 500 trees.

According to the sources, the mercenaries told Rashid Ibrahim to affirm his possession of the trees with a document from the local council of the Turkish occupation, in a new method that allows them to steal the trees' fruit.

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