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French legal complaint says Israeli army uprooted and stole ancient olive trees from Lebanon

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French legal complaint says Israeli army uprooted and stole ancient olive trees from Lebanon Submitted by MEE staff on Wed, 09/23/2026 - 11:43 Unnamed French citizen says his family in Lebanon had cultivated the grove for 250 years before Israelis arrives A Lebanese soldier stands guard at the entrance to Zawtar al-Gharbiyeh, one of three southern Lebanese villages designated as a 'pilot zone' under an Israel-Lebanon framework agreement (Giovanna Vial/MEE) Off A war crimes complaint has been filed in France against the Israeli army over its uprooting of a historic olive grove in Lebanon . An unnamed French businessman, aged 37, filed the complaint, claiming that soldiers uprooted trees that were 600-years-old on his family's land in the village of Zawtar el-Charqiye, his lawyers told the AFP News agency. The civil suit accuses the Israeli army of theft and destruction of property, which constitute war crimes. According to the businessman, the Israeli army also destroyed his family's ho

First report: French-Lebanese Businessman Sues Israeli Army Over Uprooting 600 Olive Trees In Zibd — newscord.org, 2d