BETHLEHEM, Wednesday, January 15, 2020 (WAFA) – The Israeli military issued orders seizing hundreds of dunums of agricultural land in the towns of al-Khader and Irtas, south of the southern West Bank biblical city of Bethlehem, today said Hasan Breijieh, from the Commission for the Resistance of the Wall and Settlements.
He told WAFA that Israel issued a military order for the takeover of 350 dunums of farming land in these two towns for the purpose of expanding a settlements road in order to bypass the Palestinian towns and villages in that area.
He stressed that with the building of the new bypass road, more Palestinian agricultural land will also be inaccessible to their Palestinian landowners and farmers since the road will also take along with it 150 meters of land on its both sides.
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