militants are working on the olive harvest and pomegranate in rural Afrin

ARK News: Armed factions in some of the Kurdish Afrin region’s villages are working to harvest the olive and pomegranate in secret, through fetching dozens of the labor of the displaced Idlib or Ghouta, without taking into account the decisions issued by the responsible authorities in Afrin.

Special source from Afrin city said to ARK News that "the militants and cooperation and coordination with the labor of Arab displaced people in Afrin city doing at night to harvest the olive crop in the land belonging to a peasant that the source did not reveal his name for security reasons, then the farmer complained the responsible authorities, where the gunmen stopped harvesting and gave it back what they had harvested to the owners of land. "

The same source said That "some elements of an armed group with women about fifty, on Monday, broke into the pomegranate field belonging to the citizen Darwish Darwish from the village of Feriria belonging to Jenderes town, they harvested the whole pomegranate harvest by force in front of the owner who went back to his house with tears streaming down his eyes as he lamented the loss of his children's livelihood.”

Activists on social networks posted pictures, on Monday, 8/10/2018, showing that unknown people harvested olives in a village in an indiscriminate manner, asserting that they work day-to-day to harvest crops of olive and pomegranate without taking into consideration the decisions of local officials and councils.

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