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

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Unnamed French citizen says his family in Lebanon had cultivated the grove for 250 years before Israelis arrives 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 ar