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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 (Giova…

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A French contractor filed a complaint against X for a war crime or offence and targeted the Israeli army after the grubbing-up of 600 hundred olive trees belonging to his family in Lebanon.

·France
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A French entrepreneur born in Lebanon filed a complaint against X for a war crime or offence against the Israeli army that he accused of having ripped out 600 hundred olive trees belonging to his family, learned franceinfo from his lawyers on Wednesday, confirming information from the AFP.

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A 37-year-old Frenchman denounces the grubbing up of trees, some of which, according to him, were half a millennium old, on a plot cultivated for 250 years by his family in Zawtar el-Sharqiyah, his native village in southern Lebanon.

·Paris, France
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A French businessman of Lebanese origin filed a lawsuit before the French courts against unknown persons, in which direct charges were brought against the Israeli army for war crimes, against the backdrop of the uprooting of hundreds of durable olive trees belonging to his family in southern Lebanon, according to his defence agency, the French Press Agency (AFB). The destruction of a house and the uprooting of trees of its age [...] The post . .…

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A French citizen who says 600-year-old olive trees on his family estate in Lebanon were uprooted and taken away by Israeli soldiers has filed a war crimes complaint in France. The complaint states that the family's home was also destroyed in the airstrike.

·Istanbul, Türkiye
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Le Figaro broke the news in Paris, France on Wednesday, September 23, 2026.
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