HEBRON, Monday, January 14, 2019 (WAFA) – For the second time in few days, Israeli settlers ransacked on Monday Palestinian-owned properties and demolished retaining walls in order to open a new settlers-only road in Wadi al-Hasin area to the east of Hebron city in the south of the occupied West Bank, according to the Palestinian residents.

They said settlers from the nearby illegal settlement of Kiryat Arba carrying firearms, sticks, shovels and axes gathered in Wadi al-Hasin and demolished the retaining walls the landowners had rebuilt after the settlers had destroyed them few days earlier.

Settlers also threatened to kill the owners of the land and residents in the area if they attempted to stop them.

The settlers had previously opened a two-meter-wide road along nine dunums of land in the same area following an Israeli court ruling under the pretext of opening an emergency road for the settlers.

However, the settlers wanted to open another side street from that road, which would pass through more land in Wadi al-Hasin the owners from the Jaber family had previously won a court order preventing the settlers from approaching it.

The settlers claimed they had permission from the Israeli military government to open the side street, which is in violation of the previous court order.

T.R./M.K.