Israeli army, settlers unite in collective punishment of Al-Mughayyir

On Friday, Aug. 22, a convoy of bulldozers rolled into the olive groves of Al-Mughayyir, a Palestinian village east of Ramallah in the occupied West Bank. Most were civilian machines operated by settlers, with several armored military bulldozers in support. By Sunday, thousands of olive trees, many of them decades old and belonging to local families, had been torn from the ground.

The order came from Maj. Gen. Avi Bluth, head of the Israeli army’s Central Command….